NASA Crew-12 Docks To Space Station, Reestablishing Seven-Member Crew | Aviation Week Network

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Mark Carreau
February 14, 2026

SpaceX Crew12 Dragon dock

Credit: NASA

HOUSTON—NASA’s Crew-12 mission has docked autonomously to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station (ISS), returning the orbital lab’s fulltime population to seven personnel for the first time since Jan. 14, when three NASA and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts and a Russian…

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America’s space program through news reporting.

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