{"id":148955,"date":"2026-02-09T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:43:09","slug":"crew-12-leaders-discuss-space-mission-blasting-off-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148955\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew-12 leaders discuss space mission blasting off from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCrew-12 leaders will hold a news conference on Monday to discuss the upcoming space mission lifting off from Florida.Four astronauts will blast off on Thursday from Florida on a flight to the International Space Station to replace four crew members who cut their mission short after a medical issue.The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back due to forecast weather conditions along the Dragon spacecraft&#8217;s flight path.Liftoff is now targeted for no earlier than 5:38 a.m. on Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the orbiting laboratory for a science mission, according to NASA.The prelaunch news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Monday. WESH 2 will stream the address in the video player above.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Crew-12 leaders will hold a news conference on Monday to discuss the upcoming space mission lifting off from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Four astronauts will blast off on Thursday from Florida on a flight to the International Space Station to replace four crew members who cut their mission short after a medical issue.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back due to forecast weather conditions along the Dragon spacecraft&#8217;s flight path.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is now targeted for no earlier than 5:38 a.m. on Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. <\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the orbiting laboratory for a science mission, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-agencys-spacex-crew-12-launch-docking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prelaunch news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 will stream the address in the video player above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crew-12 leaders will hold a news conference on Monday to discuss the upcoming space mission lifting off from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5071,72054,20334,28,30,29,41073,72055,72057,217,72056,14399,72060,72058,72053,72059,1284],"class_list":{"0":"post-148955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-a-m","9":"tag-crew-12-leader","10":"tag-flight","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-international-space-station","15":"tag-jack-hathaway","16":"tag-medical-issue","17":"tag-monday","18":"tag-nasa-astronaut-jessica-meir","19":"tag-news-conference","20":"tag-roscosmos-cosmonaut-andrey-fedyaev","21":"tag-space-launch-complex","22":"tag-space-mission","23":"tag-spacex-dragon-spacecraft","24":"tag-thursday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}