{"id":96708,"date":"2025-07-27T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96708\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:35:15","slug":"crew-11-arrives-at-kennedy-space-center-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96708\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew-11 arrives at Kennedy Space Center before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/nasas-spacex-crew-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA&#8217;s SpaceX Crew-11<\/a> arrived at the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon as they ready for next week\u2019s launch to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA&#8217;s SpaceX Crew-11 arrived at Kennedy Space Center<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The crew consists of veteran astronauts and first-time flyers<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The mission will have astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The launch is currently scheduled for July 31 at 12:09 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The crew is made up of a blend of veteran astronauts and first-time flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Two NASA astronauts, one Japanese astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are teaming up for the latest mission to the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Zena Cardman is coming right out of the gate leading Crew-11 on her first spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a first-time flyer, but we have the privilege of flying with people who have flown before, and seeing the International Space Station growing from its very beginning,\u201d Cardman said.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot Mike Fincke boasts a wealth of spaceflight experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m personally looking forward to going back to the International Space Station. I helped build it, and now I get to see it in its full maturity, with 6 other crewmates,\u201d said Fincke.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second trip to space for JAXA\u2019s Kimiya Yui, who will be adding to his 142 days in space.<\/p>\n<p>Cardman isn\u2019t alone in having a first spaceflight, as Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will also make his first trip.<\/p>\n<p>Crew-11 will have the honor of being on board the International Space Station as NASA celebrates 25 years of continuous human presence in space in November.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is currently scheduled for July 31\u00a0at 12:09 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 NASA&#8217;s SpaceX Crew-11 arrived at the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon as they ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[24166,63548,12981,63550,63547,63549,50,6063,159,783,9073,67,132,68,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-96708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-app-space","10":"tag-brevard-county","11":"tag-c-block-national","12":"tag-greg-pallone","13":"tag-new-space-race","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114925228730184680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708","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=96708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}