Crew-12 Set for SpaceX Dragon Flight to the ISS
Crew-12—Andrei Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot—are slated to launch no earlier than Feb 11 from Cape Canaveral aboard SpaceX's Dragon, propelled by a Falcon 9, to the ISS for about nine months and to join Expeditions 74/75. Adenot and Hathaway will make their first spaceflight; Meir is on her second, and Fedyaev would become the first cosmonaut to fly twice on Dragon. The quartet quarantined Jan 28 at Johnson Space Center and will move to Kennedy Space Center Feb 6; launch windows are Feb 11 with backups Feb 12–13. The εpsilon mission highlights international cooperation and science in orbit.