{"id":466672,"date":"2026-02-13T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:35:10","slug":"spacex-launches-crew-12-mission-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466672\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Crew-12 mission to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n

SpaceX and NASA launched<\/a> a new crew Friday to the International Space Station nearly one month after prior crew members were evacuated following a medical emergency in orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA said the SpaceX Crew-12 mission<\/a> lifted off at 5:15 a.m. from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The spacecraft will take about 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,” the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are on board SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off on NASA’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, from Lau (Steve Nesius\/Reuters \/ Reuters)<\/p>\n

“What an absolutely wonderful start to the day,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said following the launch. “This mission has shown in many ways what it means to be mission-focused at NASA.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In the last couple of weeks, we brought Crew-11 home early, we pulled forward Crew-12 to the launch date today, all while simultaneously making preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, which its next window will open up in early March,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The flight is the 12th crew rotation with SpaceX to the orbiting laboratory as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-12 will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as benefit people on Earth,” according to NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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NASA\u2019s Crew-12 members, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot walk out of the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center before transport to Launch Comple (Steve Nesius\/Reuters \/ Reuters)<\/p>\n

In January, NASA made an “unprecedented” decision to bring a crew home early<\/a> from the International Space Station after a medical emergency in orbit, marking the first time in the station\u2019s 25-year history that a mission has been cut short for health reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said at the time that a single crew member experienced a medical situation aboard the station on Jan. 7 and is now stable. After consultations with medical and agency leadership, he ordered the early return of the crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“For over 60 years, NASA has set the standard for safety and security in crewed space flight,” Isaacman said. “The health and the well-being of our astronauts is always and will be our highest priority.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft stand at Launch Complex 40 ahead of the launch of NASA\u2019s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. (Steve Nesius\/Reuters \/ Reuters)<\/p>\n

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That crew returned to earth on Jan. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-466672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}