NASA leaders hold a prelaunch news conference inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Participants include Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program; Dina Contella, deputy manager, NASA's International Space Station Program; Andreas Mogensen, ESA (European Space Agency) Human Exploration Group Leader; William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX. The Crew-12 mission will send NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 5:38 a.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 12, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
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KSC-20260209-VP-FMX01-0001-SpaceX_Crew_12_Prelaunch_News_Conference-4K-M19010
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February 9, 2026
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KSC
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video
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NASA/Frank Michaux
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LC 39 Press Site
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