Launch of Crew Dragon spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut to ISS moved to Feb 13 - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - The launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew 12 to the International Space Station (ISS) has been moved from Thursday to Friday, Roscosmos said.

"According to NASA, the launch of a Crew Dragon spacecraft with Andrei Fedyayev onboard to the ISS has been moved to February 13 due to weather conditions," it said.

The spacecraft is scheduled to take off no earlier than at 1:15 p.m. on February 13.

NASA said on January 29 that the Crew Dragon launch was planned for 2:01 p.m. on February 11, but the launch was delayed for one day.

Besides Fedyayev, the crew consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot. Fedyayev will go to the ISS under the seat barter agreement between Russia and the United States.

Roscosmos and NASA signed a seat barter agreement for Russian cosmonauts on U.S. Crew Dragon spacecraft and U.S. astronauts on Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft in July 2022, as part of the ISS program.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams are operating the ISS for now.