{"id":281458,"date":"2026-02-13T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:25:10","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-crew-12-astronaut-mission-to-the-international-space-station-early-on-feb-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281458\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch Crew-12 astronaut mission to the International Space Station early on Feb. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch live! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts launch to the International Space Station – YouTube
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SpaceX will launch the latest batch of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning (Feb. 13), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

The four-person Crew-12<\/a> mission is scheduled to launch atop a Falcon 9<\/a> rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> on Friday at 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 GMT).<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA. Coverage will begin at 3:15 a.m. EST (0815 GMT).<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will fly the Crew-12 astronaut mission to the International Space Station for NASA stand on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at sunset on Feb. 10, 2026. (Image credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani)<\/p>\n

If all goes according to plan, Crew-12’s Crew Dragon capsule, named “Freedom,” will dock with the ISS on Saturday (Feb. 14) at about 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 GMT). You can watch that milestone here at Space.com as well when the time comes.<\/p>\n

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Crew-12 consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (mission commander) and Jack Hathaway (pilot), Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency<\/a> (mission specialist), and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev<\/a> (mission specialist).<\/p>\n

Adenot and Hathaway are both spaceflight rookies. Crew-12 will be the second spaceflight for both Meir and Fedyaev. The four astronauts will stay aboard the ISS for about nine months \u2014 about three months longer than the normal crew rotation.<\/p>\n

Crew-12 will bring the ISS back up to its normal complement of seven crewmembers. The orbiting lab has been staffed with a skeleton crew<\/a> of three \u2014 NASA’s Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev \u2014 since mid-January, when SpaceX<\/a>‘s Crew-11 mission came back to Earth.<\/p>\n

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That departure came about a month early, due to an undisclosed medical issue with one of the Crew-11<\/a> astronauts. It was the first medical evacuation<\/a> in the long history of the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch live! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts launch to the International Space Station – YouTube Watch On SpaceX will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-281458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}