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NASA, Partners Adjust Summer 2025 Space Station Flight Planning

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After reviewing the International Space Station flight schedule, NASA and its partners are shifting launch opportunities for several upcoming missions. The schedule adjustments provide more time to finalize mission plans, spacecraft readiness, and logistics.

The new targeted no-earlier-than-launch opportunities, pending operational readiness, are:

  • Axiom Mission 4: 9:11 a.m. EDT, Sunday, June 8
  • NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11: Late July
  • NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services: Late August

Axiom Mission 4 will launch Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. The private crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The private astronauts will work alongside the Expedition 73 crew aboard the orbiting laboratory for a short time, conducting mission-related science, outreach, and commercial activities.

As part of Crew-11, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will launch to the space station aboard a Dragon and Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A. There, the crew of four will hand over with the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew before embarking on a long-duration mission aboard station.

In August, SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply mission for NASA will deliver science, supplies, and hardware to the orbital complex. This Dragon cargo spacecraft also will be equipped with a robust reboost kit to aid in providing propulsive boosts to maintain the space station’s altitude. This capability will help reduce Russian segment propellant use aboard the space station and maintain reserve levels.

NASA continues to review operations and will make future adjustments, as necessary, to support the space station’s needs, crew safety, and maximize science capability as the agency prepares for station’s retirement.