• Crew-12: Docking, hatch opening and welcome remarks MP4 [22.80 MB] SOURCE MP4 [497.31 MB] Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! • Watch the docking operations of Crew-12 to the International Space Station (ISS), which took place on 14 February 2026 at 21:15 CET. • The docking is followed by the hatch opening and the welcome remarks by the astronauts already present in the ISS. • ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot flies as mission specialist. • The other Crew-12 members are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, respectively commander and pilot of the mission, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, mission specialist. • The French ESA astronaut is the first of her class, the Hoppers, to fly.
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- On 14 February 2026 at 21:15 CET, the Crew‑12 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. After the docking, the hatch opened and the crew-ESA’s Sophie Adenot, NASA commander Jessica Meir, NASA pilot Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev-were welcomed aboard. Adenot, the first member of ESA’s Hoppers program, will lead European‑led experiments, medical studies, Earth‑observation tasks, and support station operations during a mission that could last up to nine months. The successful docking and crew transfer marked a key milestone for the ISS’s ongoing international collaboration.
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