\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCrew-12 lifted off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on Friday, bound for the International Space Station.Crew-12 is replacing four crew members who cut their mission short due to a medical issue.SpaceX and NASA launched Crew-12 to the ISS at 5:15 a.m. from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. >> Rewatch the launch in the video player above:About the missionThe four crew members will conduct research, technology demonstrations and maintenance on board the laboratory.Crew-12 will run experiments during their eight-month mission for future moon and Mars missions.According to NASA, research includes studies on pneumonia treatment, on-demand intravenous fluid generation, automated plant monitoring, nitrogen-fixing microbe interactions for space food production and blood flow effects during spaceflight.About the astronauts 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. Spectators gather to watch launchPrevious delays The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back due to forecast weather conditions along the Dragon spacecraft’s flight path.The mission was then scheduled for no earlier than 5:38 a.m. Thursday, but was delayed again. Artemis II mission DOWNLOAD \u202fthe free WESH 2 News app \u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Crew-12 lifted off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on Friday, bound for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
Crew-12 is replacing four crew members who cut their mission short due to a medical issue.<\/p>\n
SpaceX and NASA launched Crew-12 to the ISS at 5:15 a.m. from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. <\/p>\n
>> Rewatch the launch in the video player above:<\/p>\n
About the mission<\/p>\n
The four crew members will conduct research, technology demonstrations and maintenance on board the laboratory.<\/p>\n
Crew-12 will run experiments during their eight-month mission for future moon and Mars missions.<\/p>\n
According to NASA, research includes studies on pneumonia treatment, on-demand intravenous fluid generation, automated plant monitoring, nitrogen-fixing microbe interactions for space food production and blood flow effects during spaceflight.<\/p>\n
About the astronauts <\/p>\n
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.<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from YouTube. Spectators gather to watch launch The launch was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back due to forecast weather conditions along the Dragon spacecraft’s flight path.<\/p>\n The mission was then scheduled for no earlier than 5:38 a.m. Thursday, but was delayed again. <\/p>\n Artemis II mission <\/p>\n DOWNLOAD \u202fthe free WESH 2 News app<\/a> \u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crew-12 lifted off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on Friday, bound for the International Space Station.Crew-12 is replacing four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5071,72502,74373,72022,72054,74374,19331,20334,28,30,29,41073,72055,50315,213,72057,17649,217,11969,72056,14399,7352,72060,72058,72053,72059,74375,1284,17241],"class_list":["post-154259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-a-m","tag-astronaut","tag-crew-member","tag-crew-12","tag-crew-12-leader","tag-crew-12-rocket-launch","tag-date","tag-flight","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-jack-hathaway","tag-laboratory","tag-late-news","tag-medical-issue","tag-mission","tag-monday","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-astronaut-jessica-meir","tag-news-conference","tag-research","tag-roscosmos-cosmonaut-andrey-fedyaev","tag-space-launch-complex","tag-space-mission","tag-spacex-dragon-spacecraft","tag-technology-demonstration","tag-thursday","tag-weather-condition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154259","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=154259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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