{"id":106779,"date":"2025-07-31T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106779\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:42:13","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-crew-11-astronauts-to-the-iss-for-nasa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106779\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA today"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX is poised to launch its next astronaut mission today (July 31), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket is scheduled to launch the four-person Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) for NASA from Kennedy Space Center<\/a> in Florida today at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT).<\/p>\n

You can watch the liftoff live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA. The agency’s coverage will begin at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).<\/p>\n

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SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronaut mission for NASA launches toward the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Crew-11 will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Kimiya Yui of JAXA<\/a> (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the ISS for a roughly six-month stay. Cardman is the mission’s commander, Fincke is the pilot and Yui and Platonov are mission specialists.<\/p>\n

If all goes to plan, the mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, will dock with the orbiting lab on Saturday (Aug. 2) around 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT). You’ll be able to watch that milestone live as well.<\/p>\n

The Crew-11 astronauts <\/a>will relieve the four members of SpaceX’s Crew-10, who arrived at the ISS in March<\/a>. Crew-10 will head home to Earth a few days after Crew-11 docks.<\/p>\n

As its name suggests, Crew-11 will be the 11th operational astronaut mission SpaceX<\/a> flies to and from the ISS under its contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n

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The company has more human spaceflights under its belt than that, however; it flew a crewed test mission to the station in 2020, for example, and has also launched seven private astronaut missions to orbit.<\/p>\n

Crew-11 will be the first spaceflight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke. It will be the sixth mission for Endeavour, which is SpaceX’s most-flown Crew Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is poised to launch its next astronaut mission today (July 31), and you can watch the action…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946254182317783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}