NASA and SpaceX are gearing up to send a new four‑member crew to the International Space Station on Thursday, February 12, marking the start of the station’s latest research expedition.

The team — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, along with France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrei Fadyaev — is set to launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, carried into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket.

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