"Four people are headed to the International Space Station after a pre-dawn Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida. When the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off, it briefly turned the inky-black sky into daylight, as it roared to orbit on a nine-minute journey to space. The crew is expected to dock with the space station Saturday afternoon, Eastern time."
"But NASA's last mission, Crew-11, departed earlier than planned, in January, a month ahead of schedule. NASA said a crew member had a "serious" but stable health condition. It was the first medical evacuation in the orbital lab's 26-year history. The Crew-12 mission includes two NASA astronauts: commander Jessica Meir, and pilot Jack Hathaway. Also aboard the Crew Dragon capsule is Sophie Adenot, a French astronaut with the European Space Agency, and Andrey Fedyaev, a Russian cosmonaut."
Four astronauts launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral during a pre-dawn liftoff, with the rocket briefly turning the sky to daylight as it roared to orbit on a nine-minute ascent. The crew is expected to dock with the International Space Station Saturday afternoon Eastern time. The station has operated with a reduced crew of three since last month after Crew-11 departed a month early because a crew member experienced a "serious" but stable health condition, prompting the orbital lab's first medical evacuation in 26 years. Crew-12 includes commander Jessica Meir, pilot Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The four will spend eight months conducting science, research, and maintenance. Meir and Fedyaev return to the station; Hathaway and Adenot are first-time flyers. Meir previously conducted the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, spending more than seven hours replacing a broken battery charger.
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