Four astronauts including a french woman blast into space for special NASA mission
Par Nelly Sallibartan (Collège Germaine Tillion (91)) le 16 février 2026, 18:15 - Lien permanent
There are two NASA astronauts on board the SpaceX Dragon - Commander Jessica Meir and Pilot Jack Hathaway, who are both from the US.
They're joined by French astronaut Sophie Adenot from the European Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev from Roscosmos.
The team are called Crew-12 because they're being sent on NASA's 12th SpaceX flight to the ISS.
Crew-12 will live and work on the space station for 8 months, carrying out important science experiments for NASA.
These experiments will help NASA learn more about how to keep astronauts healthy on future missions to Mars and the Moon, as well as how to grow food in space.
The crew's research could help to improve life for humans back here on Earth, too.
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