Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 carrying two NASA astronauts, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Russian (Roscosmos) cosmonaut on a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Dragon capsule. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 UTC) on Friday, February 13, 2026. The first-stage booster making its second flight, will return for the first time to Landing Zone 40 adjacent to the launch pad about seven-and-a-half minutes after launch.

Aboard Dragon Freedom for the Crew 12 mission will be NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith, starting approximately four hours prior to liftoff.

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