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The new team, made up of representatives from the United States, France and Russia, departed from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX capsule, restoring the orbital laboratory to full operation.
In this image, taken from a video provided by NASA, you can see, in the foreground and from left to right, the Russian Andrei Fedyaev, the Americans Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir and the French Sophie Adenot. In the background, also from left to right, are the Russian Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov, the American Christopher Williams and the Russian Sergei Mikayev, reunited after the arrival of a new crew at the International Space Station, on Saturday, February 14, 2026.
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Four new astronauts from the Crew-12 mission arrived this Saturday at International Space Station (ISS)allowing the full functioning of the orbital laboratory. The crew left Cape Canaveral on Friday aboard a capsule from SpaceX.
They were part of the team Jessica Meir e Jack Hathawayan astronaut and European Space Agency (ESA) Sophie Adenot and the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Andrey Fedyaev, thus representing the United States, France and Russia.
The four-member Crew-11 mission team was made up of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Finckeby Japanese Yui Kimiyafrom the JAXA space agency, and by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
It was the first time, em 25 years of history of the International Space Station (ISS) – since the arrival of the first crew in November 2000 – that a mission has been interrupted and the return of astronauts anticipated due to a medical incident in space. It was also the first medical evacuation in more than 65 years of NASA manned flights.
date:2026-02-14 23:36:00
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