NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launch

In this ten-minute long exposure photograph, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Also visible in this image is the landing burn conducted by the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket as it returned to Landing Zone 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is the twelfth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and launched at 5:15 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin their mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/John Kraus)