FAA clears SpaceX to fly again as Crew-12 mission is slated for Feb 11

The FAA has cleared SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to return to flight after investigating an upper-stage anomaly, setting up the Crew-12 mission to the ISS for Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral aboard the Crew Dragon ‘Freedom.’ Four astronauts—NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and ESA’s Sophie Adenot—will restore the station’s crew to seven after Crew-11’s medical evacuation; the final mishap report identifies a stage-2 engine ignition failure before the deorbit burn and SpaceX has implemented preventive measures before flight.