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Artists' impression of a Crew Dragon approaching the forward port ofHarmony on the ISS. | |
| Names | USCV-12 |
|---|---|
| Mission type | ISS crew transport |
| Operator | SpaceX |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Crew Dragon |
| Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
| Manufacturer | SpaceX |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 4 |
| Members | |
| Expedition | Expedition 74/75 |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | NET February 15, 2026 |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 |
| Launch site | Kennedy,LC‑39A orCape Canaveral,SLC‑40 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing site | Pacific Ocean(planned) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking withISS | |
| Docking port | Harmony forward or zenith |
Adenot's Epsilon mission insignia | |
SpaceX Crew-12 is planned to be the twelfth operational NASACommercial Crew Program flight and the 20th crewed orbital flight of aCrew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport up to four crew members – up to twoNASA astronauts,ESA astronautSophie Adenot, andRoscosmos cosmonautOleg Artemyev — to theInternational Space Station (ISS). The mission is planned to launch no earlier than February 15, 2026.
| Position[1][2] | Crew | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | TBA Expedition 74/75 | |
| Pilot | TBA Expedition 74/75 | |
| Mission specialist | Sophie Adenot,ESA Expedition 74/75 First spaceflight | |
| Mission specialist | Oleg Artemyev,Roscosmos Expedition 74/75 Fourth spaceflight | |
The 12th SpaceX operational mission in theCommercial Crew Program is scheduled for launch in February 2026. Following the launch ofCrew 11,CBS reported that due to budget cuts to NASA under theSecond Trump Administration, Crew-12 might shift to a long-duration eight month mission to be the new standard going forward instead of three to four month missions, in order to reduce the number of launches, which Russia has already done starting with theirSoyuz MS-27 launch.[3]
On June 20, 2025,Josef Aschbacher shared that ESA's portion of the Crew-12 mission—astronautSophie Adenot's assignment—will be calledEpsilon. This will be Adenot's first trip to space. She was chosen in the2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group and will be the first career astronaut from that class to fly.[a] Stylized with a lowercaseepsilon ("ε") in place of the "E" to symbolize a "small, yet impactful"variable to the "collaborative effort of space exploration". The mission patch also includes ahummingbird, highlighting how even the tiniest creatures play an important role in nature—tying back to the idea that every contribution matters.[4]