Four new astronauts are headed to the International Space Station (ISS). On Friday at 5:15 a.m. EST, Crew-12 launched from a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, beginning a daylong journey into orbit.
Crew-12 includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos astronaut Andrey Fadeyev. The quartet is set to arrive at the station at approximately 3:15 PM EST on Saturday, February 14.
While in space, Crew-12 will perform a series of scientific experiments, including investigating how Space flight and microgravity Changes in Blood Flow and Can Vitamin B Supplements Help protect astronauts’ eyes From space flight related changes. and they will perform something fake moon landing. If everything goes according to plan, Crew-12 will also be part of a call with NASA Artemis II At a news conference Friday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the crew is making its way around the moon as are those four astronauts.
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Crew-12 replaced Crew-11 – but unlike a normal station handover, the Crew-11 astronauts were evacuated from the ISS in January, just weeks before their planned return. The decision came after one of the four members of that mission experienced an unknown medical problem — NASA has not disclosed which astronaut suffered the problem.
Since Crew-11’s unprecedentedly early departure, only three people remain aboard the ISS: a NASA astronaut, Chris Williams, and two cosmonauts, station commander Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev.
NASA has said that no changes were made to the preparation or training of Mir, Hathaway, Adenot and Fedayev as a result of what happened to Crew-11.
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