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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Reaches Orbit, News Conference at 6:45 a.m. EST

Images shows the ignition of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. Photo credit: NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft atop carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev lifts off at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 is the 12th crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft have reached orbit, and the nosecone has opened. 

The crew will spend roughly the next 34 hours to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.  

A postlaunch news conference will be held at 6:45 a.m. EST at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the following participants: 

  • NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
  • Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration
  • Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy 
  • Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson 
  • Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science and Dragon Programs, SpaceX

NASA will air the postlaunch news conference on the agency’s YouTube channel.  

Follow along Crew-12’s journey posted on the mission blog, @NASAKennedy and @spacestation on X, or NASA Kennedy and International Space Station on Facebook.

The flight is the 12th crew rotation with SpaceX to the orbiting laboratory as part of NASA’s 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.