For sixty years – since NASA’s Gemini program – every astronaut launching to space has worn a mission patch. These usually contain the astronauts’ names and also reflects unique elements of the respective missions. When assigned to their mission to the International Space Station, one of the first things the crewmates of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 […]
The crew has finished executing communication checks with the launch team, and their seats have been rotated into position for launch. The pad support team with SpaceX now will prepare to close the spacecraft’s hatch, leaving the next Earthbound faces the crew sees to be those of recovery teams during splashdown after the end of […]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 crew members now are boarding SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. Before entering their spacecraft, all four crewmates signed the inside of the White Room, an area at the end of the crew access arm that provides access to the spacecraft. The term “White Room” dates to NASA’s Gemini program. To honor this human spaceflight […]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, departed Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building and are now on their way across the Florida spaceport to Launch Pad 39A. After waving to family, friends, and the […]
Just moments ago, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 flight crew began the walk that every NASA astronaut has made since Apollo 7 in 1968, heading to the elevator and down through the double doors below the Neil A. Armstrong Building’s Astronaut Crew Quarters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Before they left the suit-up room, the […]
Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017, Zena Cardman will conduct her first spaceflight. The Williamsburg, Virginia, native holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the time of selection, she was pursuing a doctorate in geosciences. Cardman’s geobiology and geochemical […]
We’re just a few hours away from the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. Below are some of the key milestones leading up to launch and critical events that occur after liftoff. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are scheduled to lift off at 12:09 p.m. EDT from the historic Launch Complex 39A […]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are in the suit-up room in the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A team of SpaceX […]
NASA just ramped up its coverage of today’s launch, as the live broadcast of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission has now begun. Tune in to the broadcast airing live on NASA+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. Liftoff is targeted for 12:09 […]
Good morning, and welcome to live coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission! We’re just over five hours from liftoff, with Crew-11 scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 12:09 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The U.S. Space Force’s […]
