Don't seperately parse status, let the JSON decoder do this for now

src/MissionControl.Server/Endpoints/Missions/MissionLaunches/CreateMissionLaunch.cs

@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ public class CreateMissionLaunch(MissionControlContext dbContext)
         var missionLaunch = new MissionLaunch
         {
             ScheduledFor = req.ScheduledFor,
-            // Validated in `CreateMissionLaunchRequestValidator`
-            Status = Enum.Parse<MissionLaunchStatus>(req.Status, true),
+            Status = req.Status,
             MissionId = req.MissionId,
         };
 
@@ -43,9 +42,7 @@ public record CreateMissionLaunchRequest
     public Guid MissionId { get; init; }
     public required DateTimeOffset ScheduledFor { get; init; }
 
-    // Define as a string here so it can be safely deserialized into its enum type, with a validation message when unable to do so
-    // Otherwise, we return a serialization error that is not assigned to a specific field
-    public required string Status { get; init; }
+    public required MissionLaunchStatus Status { get; init; }
 }
 
 public class CreateMissionLaunchRequestValidator : Validator<CreateMissionLaunchRequest>
@@ -55,6 +52,5 @@ public class CreateMissionLaunchRequestValidator : Validator<CreateMissionLaunch
         RuleFor(req => req.MissionId)
             .NotEqual(Guid.Empty)
             .WithMessage("Please provide a non-zero GUID.");
-        RuleFor(req => req.Status).IsEnumName(typeof(MissionLaunchStatus), false);
     }
 }