4 folks on NASA’s Crew-12 mission launch to house : NPR

[ad_1] <img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1920x1120+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1c%2F07%2F95a1379244a08dce9f5f40e0a9b3%2Fjsc2026e004031-large.jpg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1920x1120+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1c%2F07%2F95a1379244a08dce9f5f40e0a9b3%2Fjsc2026e004031-large.jpg" class="img" alt="The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission stand with a "hands in" pose while wearing their spacesuits." fetchpriority="high"/> The 4 members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission pose for a portrait at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. From left: Russian cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, pilot and commander respectively, and European House Company astronaut and Mission Specialist Sophie Adenot. SpaceX by way of NASA cover caption

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SpaceX by way of NASA 4 individuals are headed to the Worldwide House Station after a predawn Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

When the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off, it briefly turned the inky-black sky into daylight, because it roared to orbit on a nine-minute journey to house. The crew is anticipated to dock with the house station on Saturday afternoon, Japanese time.

The house station has been working with a lowered employees of three folks since final month. Usually, these NASA crew rotations overlap so the arrival astronauts can spend a number of days with the earlier crew for a information switch. However NASA's final mission, Crew-11, departed sooner than deliberate: in January, a month forward of schedule. NASA stated a crew member had a "critical" however secure well being situation. It was the primary medical evacuation within the orbital lab's 26-year historical past.

The Crew-12 mission consists of two NASA astronauts: commander Jessica Meir and pilot Jack Hathaway. Additionally aboard the Crew Dragon capsule is Sophie Adenot, a French astronaut with the European House Company, and Andrey Fedyaev, a Russian cosmonaut. The 4 are scheduled to spend eight months aboard the station conducting science and analysis and performing upkeep on the outpost.

That is the second journey to the house station for Meir and Fedyaev and the primary time in house for Hathaway and Adenot.

Meir set a file on her final go to to the house station in 2019 when she and NASA astronaut Christina Koch performed the primary all-female spacewalk. They spent greater than seven hours outdoors the house station changing a damaged battery charger.