NASA reversed that order roughly two hours later and told the astronauts they could
return to the station
NASA’s Crew-12 members,
Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts
Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir walk out of the Operations & Checkout
Building at the Kennedy Space Center before transport to Launch Complex 40,
ahead of their launch to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral,
Florida, US, February 13, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius/File Photo
NASA
ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to take shelter
and prepare for possible evacuation on Friday as a Russian crew tried to fix a
leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory.
NASA
reversed that order roughly two hours later and told the astronauts they could
return to the station. Four astronauts on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission took
shelter in the Dragon spacecraft, along with Chris Williams, a NASA astronaut
on the station’s Expedition 74 team. They are:
Jessica
Meir, spacecraft commander
American. Meir is commander of NASA’s Dragon spacecraft for the SpaceX Crew-12
mission. The Caribou, Maine, native was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013.
This is her second flight to space.
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Jack
Hathaway, spacecraft pilot
American. NASA astronaut Hathaway is the pilot for Dragon. A US Navy commander
from South Windsor, Connecticut, this is his first space flight.
Sophie
Adenot, mission specialist
French. A European Space Agency astronaut, Adenot was selected as an astronaut
in 2022 after earning an engineering degree in Toulouse, France, and serving as
a helicopter pilot and design engineer.
Andrey
Fedyaev, mission specialist
Russian. A Roscosmos cosmonaut, this is his second long-duration stay. He spent
186 days in orbit as an Expedition 69 flight engineer in 2023.
The
members of the Expedition 74 crew, which began 8 December and was due to end
this summer are:
Chris
Williams, flight engineer
American. A NASA astronaut and flight engineer for Expedition 74.
Sergey
Kud-Sverchkov, commander
Russian. The Roscosmos cosmonaut is commander of the Expedition 74 crew.
Sergei
Mikaev, flight engineer
Russian. The cosmonaut is a flight engineer for Expedition 74.
