Crew-12

Jessica Meir

• Birthday: 07/01/1977
• Role: Spacecraft Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/25/2019
• Last Flight: 09/25/2019

Jessica Ulrika Meir is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, f...

Jack Hathaway

• Birthday: 01/01/1982
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America

Jack Hathaway is a US Navy commander from Connecticut. He earned bachelors’ degrees in physics and history from the U.S. Na...

Sophie Adenot

• Birthday: 07/05/1982
• Role: Flight Engineer
• Nationality: France

Between 2001 and 2003, Sophie studied engineering and graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, where she specialised...

Andrei Fedyaev

• Birthday: 02/26/1981
• Role: Flight Engineer
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 03/02/2023
• Last Flight: 03/02/2023

Andrei Valerievich Fedyaev (Андрей Валерьевич Федяев) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a military pilot p...

Mission

Crew-12

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $52,000,000

SpaceX Crew-12 is the twelfth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Location

Unknown Pad

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Find the best place to watch the launch from Florida

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

Rocket

SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

Learn more about the Falcon 9 Block 5

The Falcon 9 first stage will attempt to land back at the launch site after this flight. The booster serial number is unknown at this time. Check back for more details about the booster.

A sonic boom is likely to occur a few minutes after launch as the booster returns to the launch site. Be prepared for a loud but thrilling experience! Learn more about rocket launch sonic booms

Landing Zone at SLC-40 - LZ at SLC-40

Landing Pad at SLC-40 for Falcon 9 boosters. Built as an replacement for LZ-1 & LZ-2.

Return to Launch Site - RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

Agency

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.