NASA Crew Readies for ISS Mission Launch on Thursday

NASA crew with Pittsburgh-area astronaut gets ready for liftoff

Mike Fincke, of Emsworth, Allegheny County, is serving as the pilot for NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 on a mission to the International Space Station.

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB – Spaceflight Now

File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 11:07 p.m.: SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX is preparing to launch another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying from Vandenberg Space Force Base Saturday night. The Starlink 17-2 mission will take a south-westerly trajectory as the rocket soars from Space Launch Complex 4 East. It will deploy th…

Crew-11 arrives at Kennedy Space Center before next week's launch

The crew consists of veteran astronauts and first-time flyers.

SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of launch to space station

The NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos crew members set to launch next to the International Space Station arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, July 26, 2025.

NASA crew readies for ISS mission launch on Thursday

An international crew is readying for Thursday's planned launch of a NASA mission to the International Space Station after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.

Astronauts for Crew-11 fly into KSC ahead of upcoming launch

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The business of hurtling humans into space is getting routine on the Space Coast with the fourth flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon queued up for this week. The crew going for that ride arrived in Florida on Saturday. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, the quartet for SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission to the International Sp…