ISS Back to Full Strength with Arrival of New Crew Written 17 February 2026
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A Falcon 9 rocket launches a Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the ISS, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Onboard are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. | Credit: NASA
AP News reports, “The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns. SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral.”
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