Departing Crew-11 Members Suit Up | International Space Station

Departing Crew-11 Members Suit Up | International Space Station

Four SpaceX Crew-11 members gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui.

Updates: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke handed over command of the International Space Station to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Russia at 2:35 p.m. EST, Monday, January 12, 2026. The traditional Change of Command Ceremony precedes the targeted departure of Fincke with Zena Cardman of NASA, Kimiya Yui of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos of Russia aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is targeted undock from the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 5:05 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Crew-11 will then complete a parachute-assisted lamnding inside Dragon to a splashdown off the coast of California less than 12 hours later at about 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15. NASA and SpaceX support personnel will retrieve Dragon and the crew from the Pacific Ocean and return them to California before the crewmates fly back to their home agencies.

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Expedition 74 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Oleg Platonov, Sergei Mikaev

NASA Flight Engineers: Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Chris Williams

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center

Release Date: Jan. 9, 2025

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