{"id":423529,"date":"2026-02-13T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:56:08","slug":"nasas-spacex-crew-12-launches-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423529\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-12 Launches &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifted off at\u202f5:15 a.m. EST\u202ffrom Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, are experiencing 2 g\u202fas SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket go through a rapid series of events.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft will take\u202fabout 34 hours to autonomously dock with the space station\u2019s Harmony module at\u202f3:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, while traveling 17,000 mph in Earth orbit.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Up next, the nine Merlin engines on Falcon 9\u2019s first stage will burn through one million pounds of propellant during the next three minutes.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of the Crew-12 broadcast is airing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA+<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/livetv\/ref=atv_hm_liv_LRad2e3b_slct?serviceToken=v0_Cl0KJGUwMTYwNTQwLWU2NjMtNGE1OC05MDczLTZiMmRmYjI5NWMyNRDwyY266jIaLExpNitvL2dzaDBoR0NjVGdhVGdLTHptYkF6dHpuZ29zb2VJMDZ6YWhmZEk9IAESBmZpbHRlchgBIgRob21lKgRsaXZlWj8KDGxpbmVhckZpbHRlchIvCi1hbXpuMS1wdi1saW5lYXItbGl2ZV90YWItZmlsdGVyLWxlYXJuX2V4cGxvcmV6AIIBBjAAUABwAA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amazon Prime<\/a>, and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nasa\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> channel. Learn\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/general\/watch-nasa-programming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">how to watch<\/a>\u202f NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.<\/p>\n<p>Updates on today\u2019s milestones will be posted on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/crew-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mission blog<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAKennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@NASAKennedy<\/a>\u00a0on X, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAKennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA Kennedy<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17c9ae8c3df1bfbae89a3f09f23caa1a4e9e7ccee32a478d2371dad23800d628.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2026 5:17AM<\/p>\n<p>More from International Space Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifted off at\u202f5:15 a.m. EST\u202ffrom Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9956,49,12385,154290,154291,13620,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-423529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-commercial-crew","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-international-space-station-iss","11":"tag-jack-hathaway","12":"tag-jessica-u-meir","13":"tag-kennedy-space-center","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}