Crew-12 Members and Insignia – NASA

From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot pose next to their mission badges inside the astronaut crew quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. Crew members NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and a Falcon 9 to the International Space Station no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST on Friday, February 13, from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral space station.

During their eight-month mission, Crew-12 will conduct various scientific experiments to advance research and technology for future missions to the Moon and Mars and benefit humanity on Earth. This research includes studies of pneumonia-causing bacteria to improve treatments, generation of on-demand intravenous fluids for future space missions, automated monitoring of plant health, investigations of interactions between plants and nitrogen-fixing microbes to improve food production in space, and research into how physical characteristics can affect blood flow during spaceflight.

Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett