NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Suit-Up Operations | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Suit-Up Operations | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 crew members go through last minute suit leak checks at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31, 2025. 

[Weather-related delay] The four crew members of Crew-11 are now scheduled no earlier than Friday, August 1, 2025, for the launch of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A.

Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia) will ride inside the Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 for an automated, day-and-a-half long trip to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. Once there, the four Crew-11 members will join Expedition 73 beginning a seven-month research mission in low Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up to welcome four new crewmates at the end of the week. Shortly after that, another quartet that has been living and working aboard the International Space Station since March will return to Earth.

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Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Duration: 28 seconds
Release Date: July 31, 2025

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