SpaceX’s Crew-11 astronaut mission will arrive on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) early Saturday morning (Aug. 2), and you’ll watch the motion stay.
Crew-11’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is scheduled to dock with the ISS round 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT) on Saturday, simply 15 hours after it launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s House Coast.
You may watch the rendezvous stay via NASA, and House.com will carry the company’s feed if it is made accessible. Protection will start at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) and run till not less than 5:45 a.m. EDT (0945 GMT), when a welcome ceremony is scheduled to happen.
The docking will happen 5 years to the day after the splashdown of SpaceX‘s first-ever crewed mission, the Demo-2 test flight, which despatched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS for a two-month keep. Demo-2 additionally employed the Crew Dragon Endeavour.
Crew-11 is commanded by NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Her crewmates are fellow NASA spaceflyer Mike Fincke, who’s the Crew-11 pilot, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Russia’s area company Roscosmos,. The latter are each mission specialists.
That is the primary spaceflight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke. And it is the sixth journey into the ultimate frontier for Endeavour, SpaceX’s most-flown crew capsule.
The Crew-11 quartet will be part of seven people who find themselves already residing aboard the orbiting lab: JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, commander of the station’s present Expedition 73 mission; Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and Jonny Kim of NASA; and cosmonauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.
The Crew-11 astronauts will relieve Ayers, McClain, Onishi and Peskov, who arrived at the ISS in mid-March on SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission. The Crew-10 quartet will head again house to Earth a couple of days from now, after spending a while and sharing some data with their Crew-11 counterparts.
As its identify signifies, Crew-11 is the eleventh operational astronaut mission SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA. SpaceX additionally has eight different crewed flights beneath its belt — Demo-2, 4 non-public efforts to the orbiting lab operated by the Houston firm Axiom Space, and three free-flying missions to orbit (Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn and Fram2).