Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 5:15 a.m. EST on the 12th crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.