4 folks on NASA’S Crew-12 arrive at International Space Station : NPR

The 4 members of NASA’S SpaceX Crew-12 mission docked on the International Space Station on Saturday afternoon.

The crew blasted off earlier than daybreak on Friday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Crew-12 mission contains two NASA astronauts, Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. During their eight-month mission, the crew will conduct scientific analysis to prepare for human exploration beyond earth’s orbit and improve meals manufacturing in house.

“With Crew-12 safely on orbit, America and our international partners once again demonstrated the professionalism, preparation, and teamwork required for human spaceflight,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated in a press release.

The mission replaces the crew from NASA’s Crew-11 mission, which departed the ISS a month forward of schedule in January resulting from a medical evacuation of one of many crew members. Since then, the house station has been working with a decreased employees of three folks — nicely under it is typical seven-person employees.

Isaacman additionally stated that NASA is concurrently making preparations for the 10-day Artemis II mission, which might ship a crew of four astronauts around the moon. It’s the primary crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and is slated to take off as quickly as March.