NASA has just announced the docking time of the spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev to the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon ship of the Crew-12 mission is expected to dock at around 11:15 p.m. Moscow time on February 14.
“The spacecraft will autonomously dock with the station's Harmony module spaceport at approximately 3:15 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, February 14,” the agency said in a statement.
A day earlier, a Falcon-9 booster carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral. As Roscosmos clarified, launch into orbit and separation from the second stage of the rocket took place as planned.
Previously, NASA reported that the launch of Crew-12 with the Russians from the spaceport in Florida was postponed due to weather conditions at the launch pad area from February 11 to February 12 and then to February 13.
In addition to Fedyaev, astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway (NASA) and Sophie Adeno (European Space Agency) will be on board Crew Dragon.
