The crew of Crew-12 went on a flight with Gagarin's "Let's Go" in Russian

On February 13, crew members of the Crew-12 mission uttered the legendary "Let's go!" before the launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the phrase of the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin.

According to the broadcast on the NASA website, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev was the first to say "Let's go!" in Russian after short appeals from the crew members. The other members of the mission supported him and repeated the famous phrase with a slight accent. It happened just over seven minutes before the start. After that, the astronauts waved their hands and waited for the launch.

The crew of Crew-12 includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, representative of the European Space Agency Sophie Adeno, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev. This was Fedyaev's second flight: he previously went to the International Space Station in 2023 as part of the Crew-6 mission.

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The Crew Dragon spacecraft with Fedyaev on board launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral in Florida earlier that day. It was noted that the first stage of the rocket is planned to return to the launch complex — this will be the first time that SpaceX launched and landed a rocket from the same launch complex at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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