{"id":98261,"date":"2025-07-28T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98261\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:33:10","slug":"nasa-spacex-crew-11-ready-for-liftoff-with-pittsburgh-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98261\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA SpaceX Crew-11 ready for liftoff with Pittsburgh astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNASA&#8217;s newest international crew is ready for liftoff, and a local astronaut is among them.Mike Fincke, of Emsworth, is the mission pilot for SpaceX Crew-11.&#8221;This is a great crew,&#8221; Fincke said Saturday. &#8220;We are looking forward to launching soon.&#8221;Fincke and his fellow crew members arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida ahead of Thursday\u2019s scheduled launch.&#8221;I&#8217;m personally looking forward to going back up to the space station. I helped build it, and now I get to see it in its full maturity with six other crewmates,&#8221; Fincke said.The launch is set for 12:09 p.m. Thursday. If all goes as planned, Crew 11 will dock with the International Space Station at 3 a.m. Aug. 2.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s newest international crew is ready for liftoff, and a local astronaut is among them.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fincke, of Emsworth, is the mission pilot for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/crew-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX Crew-11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great crew,&#8221; Fincke said Saturday. &#8220;We are looking forward to launching soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fincke and his fellow crew members arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida ahead of Thursday\u2019s scheduled launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m personally looking forward to going back up to the space station. I helped build it, and now I get to see it in its full maturity with six other crewmates,&#8221; Fincke said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is set for 12:09 p.m. Thursday. If all goes as planned, Crew 11 will dock with the International Space Station at 3 a.m. Aug. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s newest international crew is ready for liftoff, and a local astronaut is among them.Mike Fincke, of Emsworth,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[13633,6754,43822,64316,723,64309,3057,577,6226,55880,64307,64313,916,64308,64311,64310,64314,159,783,64312,2527,64315,2450,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astronauts","9":"tag-cape-canaveral","10":"tag-crew-11","11":"tag-fellow-crew-member","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-great-crew","14":"tag-international-space-station","15":"tag-iss","16":"tag-launch","17":"tag-liftoff","18":"tag-mike-fincke","19":"tag-mission-pilot","20":"tag-nasa","21":"tag-nasa-crew","22":"tag-new-international-crew","23":"tag-pittsburgh-astronaut","24":"tag-pittsburgh-area-astronaut","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-space","27":"tag-space-station","28":"tag-spacex","29":"tag-spacex-crew-11","30":"tag-thursday","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114928523985492376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98261","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=98261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}