Artemis II Moon Mission Timeline

NASA and SpaceX’s Crew‑12 launched pre‑dawn Friday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9, briefly lighting up the sky and carrying four international crew members — NASA commander Jessica Meir, NASA pilot Jack Hathaway, ESA mission specialist Sophie Adenot of France, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — who will spend about eight months on the ISS conducting research and maintenance. The Dragon is due to dock Saturday afternoon Eastern, restoring the station’s full complement after it had operated with only three crew since Crew‑11’s early January return for the first medical evacuation in the ISS’s 26‑year history; Meir and Fedyaev are on their second flights while Hathaway and Adenot are first‑time spacefarers.