Steve Sullivan, chief engineer to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, along with his wife Jackie, participate in raising the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. 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.
Photographer NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
Album SpaceX_Crew_12
Location Countdown Clock, LC 39 Press Sit
Date February 9, 2026