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    NASA’s Swift Mission Transitions Ops to Prep for Orbit Boost

    NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay. Halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission.

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    NASA, SpaceX Target Friday for Crew-12 Launch Due to Weather

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    NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST, Friday, Feb. 13, for launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Mission teams completed a weather review Tuesday morning and have waived off the Thursday, Feb. 12, launch opportunity due to forecast […]

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Completes Dry Dress Rehearsal

    Image shows a night time sky with a white crew access arm, and a white and black SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft atop at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. Photo credit: SpaceX

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members achieved a critical prelaunch milestone by completing their dry dress rehearsal at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev practiced launch day operations, including suiting up, traveling to the pad, and boarding […]

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    NASA, SpaceX Adjust Crew-12 Launch Date Due to Weather

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    NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 5:38 a.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 12, for launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Mission teams completed a weather review on Monday and elected to waive off a Wednesday, Feb. 11, launch opportunity due to forecast weather conditions along the flight path of the Dragon spacecraft. Weather will continue to be […]

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    NASA Conducts Repairs, Analysis Ahead of Next Artemis II Fueling Test

    Since concluding a wet dress rehearsal Feb. 3 ahead of Artemis II, technicians have replaced two seals in an area where operators saw higher than allowable hydrogen gas concentrations during the test. Engineers are analyzing the removed seals and developing plans to address all issues ahead of the next rehearsal. Once the SLS (Space Launch […]

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Answer Questions from Quarantine

    Image shows a NASA insignia in the background while four astronauts in blue flight suits sit and speak virtually to the media inside Astronaut Crew Quarters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Photo credit: NASA

    NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev answered questions Sunday from the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During their virtual briefing with the media, Crew-12 discussed their science objectives aboard the International […]

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Arrives in Florida

    NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, all members of the Crew-12 mission, landed shortly after 8:30 p.m. EST Friday at NASA Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida. Watch the crew arrival here. Crew-12 will head to Astronaut Crew Quarters inside Kennedy’s […]

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