The Dragon spaceship of the company SpaceX With an international crew it was launched today (01.08.2025) by Florida, to the International Space Station, as part of its routine mission NASA bearing the name Crew -11.
SpaceX’s Dragon spaceship, carried by a Falcon 9 rocket, was launched by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 18:43 Greek time (15:43 GMT) and will arrive at the International Space Station tomorrow Saturday.
The US Space Service broadcast live.
Crew-11 will send four people to the ISS for a six-month mission: NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Kimiya Yui from Japan and Oleg Platonov from the Russian Space Service Roscosmos. It will be the first space flight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke.
The quartet will replace the four astronauts of the Crew-10 mission of SpaceX, who have been living in the space lab since March 16 and will depart a few days after the arrival of Crew-11.
Crew-11 will be the sixth shipping for Endeavor, which has the same name as one of NASA’s withdrawn space buses. Endeavor has carried out more astronauts than any other SpaceX capsule.