NASA has officially confirmed the crew for its upcoming SpaceX Crew-12 mission, a flight that will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than February 15, 2026. The mission continues a well-established international partnership that has quietly sustained life and work aboard the station for more than two decades, combining American, European, and Russian crew members on a single flight.
According to NASA, the Crew-12 mission will include two U.S. astronauts, one European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut. The crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, reinforcing the agency’s reliance on commercial partners to handle transportation to low Earth orbit while NASA focuses on deeper space ambitions.
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Commanding the mission is NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who is returning to orbit for her second long-duration stay. Meir previously spent more than six months aboard the ISS and made history in 2019 when she participated in the first all-women spacewalk alongside astronaut Christina Koch.
