NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Virtual Q&A Media Event - 4K

Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, from left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, participate in a news conference from Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. The Crew-12 mission is slated to launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

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Good morning and welcome to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. I'm Shaneequa Vereen, joining you from Florida as we prepare for the upcoming launch of NASA's SpaceX crew 12 mission launches slated for no earlier than Wednesday, February 11th. Today is the crew's final media availability before launch. Our crew, 12 astronauts, are joining us virtually from quarantine ahead of their mission to the International Space Station. We have about 30 minutes together this morning, and we'll try to answer as many of your questions as possible.

With that, let's head over to crew quarters to hear a few words from the Dragon Commander, Jessica Meir. Just, just. Hello, everybody. Thank you so much, Shaneequa. It's wonderful to be here with you today.

As Shaniqua just mentioned, we're here in the crew quarters facility in Florida. We arrived a couple of days ago, and this is really starting to feel like we're about to launch. You know, we we've seen the rocket. We've been spending time out on the beach with our families. We've been, you know, thinking about all the things, last minute things that we need to take care of.

So it's getting very, very real. We want to say a big thanks to all the teams that got us here. NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, all of our international partners, SpaceX. Of course, for all the incredible preparation that we've received. We are really feeling ready and hopefully we will be able to launch on Wednesday as planned.

Also today I cooked, traditional Russian food. This is a borsch. And, I hope, it, I cooked it, it for my crew, for teams who, support it. Support us. Yes.

Thank you. And, Delicious. I hope they're delicious. Thanks, Andre. It's been great here in crew quarters.

It's just a historic part of NASA's program. From the beginning of the space program, astronauts have been staying here in quarantine before they go, doing our last little bit of training, some quality time with our families. It's really a special place to be. We're happy to be here at Kennedy Space Center, and we're really, really excited to launch it in three days. Thanks, Jack.

Yeah. And not only, my very serious training happens also, but daily anecdotes. And we wanted to share the one funny anecdote that we, started sleep shifts in order to be ready for a launch at 6 a. m. Florida time.

And so, for example, today we're going to go to bed at 2:02 p. m. and going to wake up at 9:45 p. m.. And in order to help us, we wear this, these wonderful glasses that look blue lights.

And we really like it. All right. Back to you. And we're ready to take any questions. Thanks, Jessica.

We will now begin taking questions from our phone bridge and online using the hashtag. Ask NASA to join the queue for the phone bridge. Press star one. If your question is asked and answered and you would like to remove yourself from the crew, please press star two. All right, operator, we'll take our first question.

Thank you. Will Robinson Smith of Spaceflight Now. Your line is open. Hi, everyone. Good morning, and thanks for taking the time to talk with us today.

That's of luck with the mission. Question for the whole crew, but sort of broken up slightly differently. Jessica, if you could talk a little bit about your, marine biology experience and especially your work in the Arctic and how that helped inform your time as an astronaut, and then to the rest of the crew. You all have, armed services background. If you could speak to how your military service helps you in your, daily or your mindset as astronauts and cosmonauts, that'd be great.

Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. As you mentioned, I did work as a scientist in my previous career, and I was studying the physiology of animals in extreme environments. So that research brought me to places like the Antarctic. And I was fortunate enough to go down there five times for research expeditions and later for a diving expedition as well.

And I think it does actually play in really nicely with our current job, with some of the similarities that these guys have from their military, military deployments and that kind of thing. And I think that came through, you know, in my astronaut interview as well. The things that I would point out are working in an isolated, harsh environment. So I was working in a remote field camp in the Antarctic with a very small team of people living in, you know, confined situation with, you know, in a harsh climate. So those kinds of experiences really help prepare us for the confined locations, like the International Space Station, and help teach us really valuable lesson lessons about teamwork and cooperation and, and, and what it's like to really spend that much time together with a small group of people.

I think there are a lot of other parallels as well. You know, when we're down in the Antarctic, we don't bring a ton of other specialists. We just had our small core team that was doing science. For my research, we were studying the diving physiology of emperor penguins. So in addition to doing the science, we also had to spend some days just shoveling snow or fixing a broken down snowmobile and that kind of thing.

And that brings you brings out the sort of operational Fix-It type skills that are also really important to our daily routine on the space station, since, of course, we can't call an electrician or a plumber to fix a toilet or change a light bulb. Thanks, Jessica. I think the question hits it on the head in the sense that we have all different backgrounds, and that's what makes the crew a success. Throughout the 25 years of humans, in orbit on the International Space Station and throughout of our respective, space agencies. We all have a different background, and we bring something different to the bring something different to the to the adventure and to the mission.

And that helps us succeed as a crew. For me, as naval air, it helped me grow my mustache. Right now, that's a that's a really key part of my background. Pretty impressive. Right?

But also, when I grew up as a naval aviator, everyone around me challenged me to be the best version of myself and be, as capable and work as hard as I possibly could to meet the high standard, that, is present in that community. And I try to bring that, here to my experience at NASA, and, I'll kick it over. So. Yeah. Thank you, Jack and Jessica.

Yeah, I could only agree with, what you said. I would add as well that, the the backroom that Jack and I and Andre had in the military, taught us how to deal with complex operation, in the face of uncertainty. Uncertainty? So it's not only, dealing with, like, inside your cockpit with, whatever elements happen in sometimes hostile environments, but also an ever changing environment. And I think crew 12, we had a lot of a changing environment in our training.

So we, this is clearly something we, we experienced in our previous lives. And it was really, like, very relevant for our training. I agree with these guys. And, also, I think that, it doesn't matter what experience you have, any thing, what you can do, it it will be help, helpful for you. Yeah.

Thanks. All right. Operator, we are ready for our next question. Manuel moves on to the next question at Espacio. Your line is open.

Thank you so much, ma'am. I sent you with explanation and passion. Great to see you. The four of you ready for lunch? I have a question for Sophie.

Sophie, I know that you're bringing with you a new exercise in machine, to the space station e4 d and, I saw I saw some photos of you practicing with the getting used to it. I wonder if you're going to ask different crewmates to, test the machine in orbit. And what is it that you're expecting out of this machine? Do you think it's going to improve the current exercise machine on the space station? And what are you and ESA, expecting out of this machine in the near future?

Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for this question. Actually, all of us will be, training on this machine, and we're all very excited. It's a partnership between, ESA, the European Space Agency and NASA.

It's a great, opportunity for everyone and all of the teams to test the concept of a machine that, is thought to be later installed onboard the gateway, the station around the moon. And we have many hopes that this machine is. We tested it on the ground. It's incredible. It brings, a lot more exercise variety than the current exercise machine has.

And so we are very happy to test this all. It's going to be interesting to see also, because although we don't we've very confident with the ground testing. Now testing this in microgravity might bring us different analysis and maybe we'll have to tweak some of the exercises. Just to give you some examples of new exercises that were not possible before with the current a red machine. This machine, will give us the upper opportunity to do all of the pulling, movements.

We the previous one, it was mainly about pushing, so pushing it away from your body. This one has a rope built in. And so we can pull towards our body. So it's really, more, you know, a big picture will hit all of the muscle groups, and, and so it will help for better health, and we hope, better, you know, sustainable muscle. When we come back to Earth.

All right. Operator. Next question please. Bill Harwood of CBS news. Your line is open.

Thank you. I guess this is for Jessica. I mean, you guys obviously didn't get a direct handover with crew 11 aboard the station, but I assume you've talked to them on the ground, wondering if they gave you any hints and advice. And a related question, is the handover even needed, given Chris has been there since November and you and, Andre are veterans? Yeah, absolutely.

That's a good point. Actually, in the time of my last flight, around 6 or 7 years ago, we did these indirect handovers of what we call them. We did those actually regularly. It was more rare to have that direct handover where the other crew stayed on board before you arrived. So now since we've had commercial crew, we have been doing these direct handovers more, and it does help in order to transfer over any, you know, last minute operations to help people get the lay of the land.

But there is nothing magic in it. It also during that direct handover, it actually it's quite crowded on the space station as well, so sometimes it's hard to it can make life a little bit more difficult. So we don't anticipate any problems. Like you mentioned, Chris has been up there since around the time of Thanksgiving, so he is very well settled in. We have talked to him as a crew.

We've talked to him individually several times, so we've traded different pieces of information. He's doing really well and has that place running. It's going to be in perfect shape when we get up there, I'm sure, because he's so competent and settled in and we did have a chance to talk to the crew, 11 astronauts as well. We ran into them several times and had a little bit of a debrief so they could pass along some pertinent things. There are some differences on the space station from now, from the time that Andre and I flew before, but overall as a whole, it hasn't changed that much.

So you're right, our experience will also help. And, Jack and Sophie will be up to speed in no time. I'm sure. Thanks, Bill. Operator.

Next question for us, please. Thank you for this. Enough of about space today news. Your line is open. Good morning, and thank you for taking our questions today.

Mine is a little bit more serious, perhaps, than some. You had two people doing numerous interviews on networks and local television stations. One is a retired senior engineer from NASA, and the other is a former shuttle pilot. And they've been going around saying that the heat shield has old technology. It's rated as an app.

How does that make you feel? And I want to direct that to to Jessica. Go ahead. Well, that is specific to the Artemis mission. We are flying on a SpaceX Dragon capsule.

So totally different heat shield than the one that you were talking about. But in regard to the Artemis mission, you know, we have thousands of engineers here that have reviewed all of those data and that are trying to make sure that we are in a good posture. So we have reviewed those data. We do believe that the profile that the Artemis astronauts will be flying is a safe one, and we will leave it to that team to sort out. Thanks, Jessica.

Operator. Next question. Jonathan here of Fox News. Morning. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us.

I'm wondering if each of you could describe a personal item that you're bringing along with you to space. Sure. We all get to bring different personal items with us. To space to share, with all our friends and families. And that's pretty meaningful to a lot of us, right?

We have a lot of people in our lives that have, helped us along the way. And, it's hard to really express, how thankful we are to everyone that has helped us get to where we are in life. And one of the ways we can do that, maybe, is sharing something that we've flown as a personal gift afterwards. And that feels pretty powerful. And, I know I'm pretty excited to do that.

When I get back. Andre. Yeah, I think that's the same, like you said, different photos. Different, small things. And for gift.

For for gift, for my friends. Yeah. Same. Yeah. I have some mementos from different institutions, organizations, universities that I've attended before, and we won't give any spoiler alerts.

We'll save some of that. But one thing I will tell you, I do have a small stuffed rabbit that belongs to my three year old daughter, and she actually has two of these because some one was given as a gift. So one will stay down here with her and one will be there with us having adventures all the time. So we'll, we'll keep sending those photos back and forth to my family. Thanks.

Yeah. And, yeah, for me, some, personal items, too. I can, mention one that has, like, had a lot of meaning for me. So I'm playing the mission patch of, Claudia. Your head.

She was the first French woman, astronaut, and she inspired me so much. So I wanted to honor, her path and how she inspired so many women in France. And so many also, not only women, but people wanted to go into sciences and and adventure and exploration. So, yeah, that's something I'm going to find. Next question please.

Denis. Okay. The a c hotline is open. Thank you for the briefing. My question is to Andrew today.

What are your expectations from the mission? And has Alex kept on giving you any advice up to his flight, please? Crew 11. Thank you. Yes.

Of course. We had the chance to, speak each other. He told me different, things with, will help me in my, first time in the flight. But also, in us segment, we have, there, Sergei, Kutuzov, Sergei, me, Kyiv and Chris on us segment. I think, how to say please, not just me on the, handle.

And I think in the handover, should should be good. All right, next question on the line. PJ Moscow of the Epoch Times. The line is open. Hello.

Thank you so much for taking the time. And, Godspeed. Question for, Jessica. How does it feel now going into space as a mother? And for Sophie?

The ESA has continued to, decline to build its own, crew spacecraft. And I was wondering if, if you would you and, your, your fellow, NASA astronaut colleagues would, you know, would one day like to see that you see that come to pass. Well, to start out, a lot of astronauts and cosmonauts around the world are parents, so it's certainly nothing new. But it is personally different for me than my first flight, since, of course, my daughter was born only in between these two flights. So it does feel very different.

And it is does make it a lot difficult in preparing to leave and thinking about being away from her for that long, especially when she's so young. It's really a large chunk of her life, but I hope that, you know, one day she will really realize that this absence was a meaningful one because it was an adventure that she got to share into and that she'll have memories about, and hopefully it will inspire her and other people around the world. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for your question. So, actually, I think we're, living at an era of spaceflight, which is very interesting and kind of hard to predict.

Of course, for now, we don't have a crew capsule. Maybe one day we'll have I don't know, I mean, I don't have a crystal ball to predict anything, but what I can say is things are changing very fast in the space environment. And it's true for like, all over the continents, because many nations are working to fill up their, their space program. And I think in the future, in ten years from now, no one can predict what will happen. But what we can all say is that it's evolving very fast and leaning towards more space, programs over the world.

Thank you. Just a reminder for those on the phone bridge, if you have a question and would like to join the queue, please press star one. If your question has been asked and answered and you'd like to remove yourself from the queue, please press star two. All right. Operator, we'll go to our next question.

Will Robinson Smith of Spaceflight Now your line is open. Hi. Thanks for allowing another, go around with questions. Questions for the full crew again, but split up into two parts for the veterans, Jessica and Andre. You know, given that station only has, about a half a decade left, this may be the final time that you get to visit.

So are there things that you weren't able to do during your first flight that you're hoping to do this go around, or something that you never got a chance to do, and then to, Jack and Sophie, since you're able to visit station, for the first time now, you know, has there been anything that your colleagues and Nathan used, respectively, that told you that you really should make a point to do while you have this time on station? Thank you. Well, I was extremely fortunate on my first flight, and I got to do pretty much everything. Spacewalks. Robotic arm captures so many different types of scientific experiments.

So there aren't very many things I didn't do. But the one thing I think because we were so busy, there was a goal that I had of spending an entire orbit. So a whole 90 minutes in the cupola and being around in that one spot, looking down all the way around the earth, I actually never had time. I had this agenda. I really wanted to do it, and I never found a chance to do it.

So that's definitely high up on my list. As you know, the ISS, was planned to use, I think 20, 24. But, yeah. And, but now we have, 20, 26. Yeah.

Who knows, maybe, we will fly on Station Elizabeth a little bit, more than five years. But, of course, last, flight, I didn't, have a chance, to make, Eva, but in this flight to, in this case, I hope what I said thank you. I think the best piece of advice I've gotten about stuff to do up on station is just, slow down and smile and enjoy it, and, we can get really caught up in all the important science and all the important technical work that we're doing up there. But it's a great privilege, that we get to experience weightlessness and the beauty of the Earth from an orbit. And it's all based on the thousands and tens of thousands of people around the world through all our international partners partnerships.

And all the work that we've kept humans in orbit for 25 years and just slow down, smile, and enjoy being a part of that history. So, I'm looking forward to that. And I know something, Jessica didn't get to do on her last mission that she's going to enjoy this time is hang out with the four of us. Have a great time together. A true, very true.

Yeah. I can only concur with, what was, said before, and it's very interesting. I received this morning, an email from a European astronaut who flew, in the early 2020s, and he said, Sophie, you know, your schedule will be especially busy for your increment. But don't forget one thing. You have to go put your eyes and in the cupola to see the earth at least once a day, because it's very easy.

The schedule is sometimes crazy. It's timed every five minutes. We have like it's very detailed and it's a lot. And so he said, like, force yourself to go see from the cupola once a day. Thing.

Thank you. Operator. We'll go to the next question, please. Richard Shuaibu of the Orlando Sentinel, your line is open. Great.

Thanks. And thanks for taking time, to take questions today. My one question I have for Jack, and I'm glad you brought it up. It's been a minute since, a mustache has traveled to space, so I'm wondering if you talk to any other astronauts who had, brought, similar facial hair up in the past, and if they gave you any tips, but. And that might be a little lighthearted, but for the rest of the crew, a little bit deeper.

This might be the last opportunity you get to actually be on the International Space Station. And that, weigh on you at all the things that you want to accomplish or things that you want to make sure, that, you know, you, you take care of, and on this, potentially last half decade of this, spacecraft. Thank you for the mustaches. A lot of fun. The crew has enjoyed it.

We've had a bunch of laughs about it. We've had some support, some of our support staff, particularly our flight surgeons, have grown mustaches as well. In support and solidarity of my mustache. And I appreciate it. And I have mine in solidarity of all the naval officers and men and women, throughout history, that have worn mustaches to see.

And I get to wear one to space. I'm trying to get it as long as possible, see if I can get it to be more crazy than than the hair, of our fine female astronauts. But I don't think I will. They have a more style than I do. So I'm looking forward to, seeing what it does up there.

How crazy it gets. As for our our, it's maybe our my last opportunity to go to the space station. I'm, I'm more excited about being part of the group of, part of a group of people that passes it on from group to group to group. Maybe I'll get to go again. Maybe not.

Maybe I'll do something else. Or not? I don't know the future. Like Sophie said earlier, but, we know right now we're we're part of something special. And that's part of NASA and part of ESA and part of Roscosmos and part of humanity.

And it's really powerful to be part of something like that. So whether I get to go again or not, I got to be a part of this for this moment, with me and my family and our families, and, we feel really blessed and honored to have that opportunity. Yeah, I think for me, for the focus on, you know, what could be my final mission on the space station is really the mentoring aspect. This is the first time that I've been a commander of a crew, and that, to me, has been the most rewarding part is being here. You know, it's nice with Andre and I both having experience and then having two rookies.

That part has been so fulfilling for me, and I hope that with this mission, I will be able to have a very positive impact on them, on their experience on the space station and on all of their careers. Yeah. And I think, one thing that we can see for sure in our crew is, come with me. I mean, we we've been trained for, whatever happens and, yeah, we're all very happy to go to the International Space Station as, very good symbol of, what humanity can achieve when nations work together. It's been 25 years of continuous presence.

So we receive the legacy from people who built this, flown this, and operated this. And we just want to be, you know, one passing relay to the future generations, whatever happens in the future. So come with me. You know, okay. All right.

It looks like we have three more questions on the line, and we have time just before our time ends with the crew today. Operator, will you go to our next question? Jonathan, chair of Fox News, your line is open. Thanks so much for the second question. I know this is for whoever would like to take it.

I know you're launching a bit earlier than originally planned before Crew Eleven's early departure. You've already mentioned that the handover will or the handover took place on the ground instead of in space, but I wonder if there are other ways, that your preparations or training, were affected. If you could describe that. Yeah. Our schedule changed actually several times throughout our mission.

We have had a very dynamic flight schedule in recent years. So we actually moved forward by five weeks. Previously, our our flight was supposed to not launch until the end of March, so we already had that acceleration. So another four days. Wasn't that big of a deal.

We had already adjusted our training templates to account for that, and all of the teams on the ground had to do a lot of work to, you know, figure out what was essential, what could be cut and that kind of thing. It was a little bit more hectic for us than it normally would have been, but we fit everything in that we needed to. And then we also have a lot of other things in place to prepare for situations like this. Some of the previous crews that have had extra time on orbit, for example, they recorded different videos of how to do different things, of where things are located so that you can, if you have a situation like this or you don't have a handover, we have the material we need from a crew actually in space doing it. So we have a lot of materials like that.

And then of course, the incredible ground support that we have in the Mission control center, they are there all the time whenever we are working. So it's not as if we have to operate, completely autonomously or anything on the space station. They're always there to help us out through any activity that. Next question please. Can Kramer and SpaceX up close?

Your mind is open. All right. Thank you. Thank you for doing this. And good luck in your launch.

We look forward to seeing you guys. My question is for Sophie, please. You mentioned and I've read that you were inspired by first female French astronaut. I wonder if you could tell us a little background about how that came to be? And what did you do then to to become an astronaut?

And what are you planning, if anything? On the station during your time there? Outreach sessions to inspire future women and maybe, Jessica, you could talk about any future spacewalks that your crew will be doing. Thank you. Yeah.

Thank you for this question. So, yeah, I actually, I, I had this, little girl's dream of becoming an astronaut, but I was, like, very young, and it was like a faraway dream, kind of unachievable, like like a dream, basically. And, I saw the other French astronauts launch, and. Yeah, fine. I read their biographies, but I actually the launch of Claudy, the first French, French woman to to launch to space, had a really big impact on me.

And I as if I allowed myself to say, okay, well, she made it happen for herself. Now, I can allow myself to think that this can become possible. So I hope that I will, yeah. Pass this this message also to to people, not only women, but men also who have, maybe doubts in on their journey to their, their dreams or their objectives or wherever they want to go. Yeah.

Sometimes you need to, to find some inspiration, you know, when especially, for example, students are working on Math Equation and it's very boring. And you don't see the end of this and but, yeah, everything has a purpose. And when you have a little inspiration, it helps. She helped me a lot. So I hope I will be able to help a lot of the, the young people in France.

As far as EVAs or spacewalks, we do have some EVAs that are planned in the upcoming months. Of course, you never know what is going to happen. It's always a dynamic schedule, and some of the spacewalks that are planned for a few months from now depend on pieces of hardware arriving on cargo vehicles, so it's always dynamic and ever changing. But we do have some slated as early as March, and those spacewalks will be to upgrade to finish with these upgrades. We've been doing them for years now, upgrading some new solar arrays that will help augment the power system on the International Space Station.

So a couple of those, some other small repairs and upgrades, then we'll see what comes after that. And I don't know if Andre, do you know any of the planned Russian spacewalks during our mission. Yeah, we have, but yeah, we have, Russian EVAs, but without my, and and but but his participation. Yeah. But, him I think, we will have, in during the, our Eva.

I will, operate, era, you know, European robotic arm. Yeah, yeah. So what Andre is referring to, normally, the cosmonaut that flies on the U. S commercial vehicles doesn't receive all of the training, doesn't actually participate in the spacewalks. The two cosmonauts that are on the Soyuz will be performing those.

But. But, yeah. Sounds like he'll be helping out with the robotic arm. Yeah. All right.

And we're to our final question for today. Thank you. Matt. And well, in the Zante, if question, Alan, if this yellow your line is open. Thank you so much.

Thank you for giving me the chance for a second question. This one is for Jessica. I know the you're going to be performing or doing these very interesting, activity, which is manual piloting, these landing simulations before, during and after missions. I, I understand that astronauts in a long duration and short duration missions are going to be involved in the future. Is this, a NASA astronaut activity only, or is the agency open to other agencies doing this exercise like ESA?

I'm Ethan Jaxa. Thank you. Yeah. It's open to I will all of the what we call the uso's the U. S operating segment.

So to ESA Jaxa and the CSA, all astronauts that are flying during those expeditions, I don't think we have any partnership for that one with Roscosmos. But Sophie and I will both be doing that experiment. The manual piloting, and we have already both done a lot of sessions on the ground where we are in a special simulator that was built just for the experiment at the NASA Johnson Space Center. And it's it's just a it's not actually based on the design of one of the landers that is being built right now by SpaceX or Blue Origin. It's a different kind of design, like a reference design, but it has controllers that you're flying.

You have your monitoring, your display, you're looking at your fuel. You know, you're steering over to your landing site. And the goal of that experiment is to understand what these gravitational transitions will do to a human's ability to perform those kinds of activities. Of course, we have data from the Apollo missions because they did exactly that. But, you know, now we we know more.

We're trying to learn more with these kind of advanced systems. So Sophie and I did those sessions before the mission will do some on board using the controllers that we have to fly the Canadarm, the Canadian Space Agency built robotic arm, and then we'll use we'll do some upon landing as well. So we'll have those transitions from one G to microgravity through an extended stay in microgravity. And then from that transition right back to having full gravity again, of course, it won't be exactly the same as the one six gravity of the moon, but it will help gather more data to see if there is any impact on our skills. All right.

All right. And thank you so much for joining us today. If you would like to learn more about crew 12 and their mission, please follow along on NASA. gov. Forward slash commercial crew.

Godspeed, crew 12.

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