Roscosmos (Russian) Officials Meet Crew-11 | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Roscosmos (Russian) Officials Meet Crew-11 | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

🚀Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov and former cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (veteran of six space flights and over 800 days in space) met with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and other members of Crew-11 ahead of their launch scheduled no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. launch scheduled no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Crew-11 mission will be Platonov’s first spaceflight. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, Platonov earned a degree in Engineering from Krasnodar Air Force Academy in Aircraft Operations and Air Traffic Management. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in State and Municipal Management in 2016 from the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia. Assigned as a test cosmonaut in 2021, he has experience in piloting aircraft, zero gravity training, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.

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.

Following the new crew’s arrival, four Expedition 73 crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will begin handing over their science and maintenance responsibilities in preparation for their departure about a week later.

Video Credits: NASA/KSC, Roscosmos

Duration: 2 minutes
Date: July 30, 2025

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