SpaceX Crew-12
SpaceX Crew-12 is the 12th operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 20th crewed mission for a Crew Dragon. It will carry four crew members to the International Space Station: NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Liftoff is planned no earlier than February 11, 2026, aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40. The Crew Dragon Freedom will dock with the ISS’s Harmony module for Expedition 74/75, with a planned Pacific Ocean landing.
In December 2025, Oleg Artemyev was removed from the Crew-12 plan. Roscosmos said he would work on other assignments. The Insider reported that Artemyev was expelled after an alleged ITAR violation involving SpaceX engine photos and documents. He was replaced by Andrey Fedyaev, who will become the first Russian to fly twice on Crew Dragon, reducing training requirements.
ESA’s Sophie Adenot will be part of Crew-12, and her mission segment has been given the name “Epsilon.” This reflects ESA’s collaboration and Adenot’s status as the first member of that class to fly. The mission patch features a hummingbird and the Greek letter epsilon to symbolize small but meaningful contributions to space exploration.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 08:54 (CET).