BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The next astronauts set to visit the space station will hold a news conference Friday afternoon in Houston.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission could take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as soon as Feb. 15, according to NASA, though the space agency is said to be working with SpaceX and international partners to “review options to advance the launch” from that original target date.
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, the Crew-12 commander, and Jack Hathaway, the pilot, will join mission specialists Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos for remarks at 1 p.m. Friday from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. After the event, they will be sent to Florida to prepare for launch.
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Crew-12 mission details will be discussed during an earlier NASA news conference on Friday, at 11 a.m.
The upcoming launch comes after the hasty return and successful splashdown of Crew-11, who had their mission cut short this month in light of an unidentified astronaut’s non-specified medical issue.
News 6 will plan to stream the news conferences live at the top of this story.