NASA together with SpaceX has set a launch date for the Crew-12 mission. This date was determined after the mission had passed the rigorous Flight Readiness Review.
The expedition mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to take off on Wednesday, February 11 at around 06.01 Florida time. The launch will be carried out at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Dragon spacecraft, which carries four astronauts, will be launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The crew consists of NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Shopie Adenot, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
The four crew members have now arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to undergo the final stage of preparation. They are already in the Astronaut Crew Room located in the Neil A. Armstrong Building to undergo a quarantine period until launch day.
A thorough simulation of the launch day activities will be held on February 9. The four crew will wear complete space suits and enter the aircraft cabin to ensure that all procedures run smoothly on launch day.
Before the simulation is carried out, the SpaceX technical team will move the rocket and the Dragon spacecraft to launch pad 40. The rocket will be lifted into an upright position as a form of technical preparation before refueling is carried out.
NASA has also conducted a special evaluation of the technical problems experienced by Falcon 9 in the previous Starlink mission. The results of the analysis ensure that the flight profile of Crew-12 is different so that the safety of astronauts is still guaranteed.
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