NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Pre-launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Pre-launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 seated inside their Dragon spacecraft prior to launch.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, front right, Jack Hathaway, front left, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, back right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

From front to back, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

From right to left, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir gestures to family as her and crew mates NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir gestures to family

NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway gestures to family

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, front left, Jack Hathaway, front right, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot, back left, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

Members of Crew-12 are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-12 mission launch, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

On Friday, February 13, 2026, at 5:15 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Crew-12, Dragon’s 12th operational human spaceflight mission, to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia. Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station on Saturday, February 14 at approximately 3:15 p.m. ET. 

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Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineer: Sergei Mikaev
NASA Flight Engineer: Chris Williams

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani, SpaceX
Date: Feb. 13, 2026

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