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SpaceX Dragon Freedom carrying Crew-12 astronauts launched (Feb. 13, at 1015 UTC) on the SpaceX Falcon 9, docked ( Feb. 14, at 2015 UTC) at the space-facing port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station(ISS) with hatches opening at 2030 UTC. Those crewmembers are NASA's Meir and Jack Hathaway, the mission's commander and pilot, respectively; mission specialist Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency; and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Crew Dragon 'Freedom' spacecraft with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Андрей Федяев), from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Feb. 13, at 1015 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1101) landed on Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, having previously supported one Starlink mission. Freedom previously supported the Crew-4, Ax-2, Ax-3, and Crew-9 missions

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour -- carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov -- undocked from the space-facing port of the International Space Station (ISS)'s Harmony module at 2220 UTC on Jan. 14. Endeavor safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 0841 UTC on Jan. 15.

SpaceX’s Crew-11 Dragon Endeavor, carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, autonomously undocked from the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, on 14 January at 2220 UTC. Crew-11 is SpaceX’s eleventh operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Endeavor previously supported NASA’s Crew-3, Crew-5, and Crew-7 missions.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday (Jan. 11) at 1344 UTC. The Falcon 9's first stage landed back at Vandenberg as planned about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on Sunday. It was the fifth mission for this particular booster, according to SpaceX

SpaceX successfully launched the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (CSG-FM3) satellite on January 2, 2026, at 0209 UTC on January 3, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1081) previously supported 20 missions: Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, Transporter-10, EarthCARE, NROL-186, Transporter-13, TRACERS, NROL-48 and 11 Starlink missions. CSG-3 was successfully deployed into orbit

A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0927 UTC(Nov. 27), carrying NASA astronaut Christopher Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev. The spacecraft docked at 1234 UTC with the International Space Station (ISS), and hatch opened at 1516 UTC and the crew welcomed aboard as Expedition 73/74 crew members

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Sentinel-6B satellite from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Nov. 17, at 0521 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1097) landed on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, having previously supported two Starlink missions

China's Shenzhou-21 carrying Shenzhou 20 astronauts successfully returned to Earth shortly before 0845 UTC, November 14, touching down at the Dongfeng Landing Site in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after a 204-day mission aboard the Tiangong space station