Overview
- Mission control halted the countdown at T-1:07 after cumulus clouds violated launch weather rules over Launch Pad 39A.
- NASA and SpaceX have reserved launch windows Friday at 11:43 a.m. EDT with backups on Saturday and Sunday and Space Launch Delta 45 forecasting 85% favorable weather for the first retry.
- Dragon Endeavour will fly its sixth certified mission after completing reuse verification beyond its original five-flight limit.
- Crew-11 includes commander Zena Cardman and veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke alongside JAXA’s Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos’s Oleg Platonov for a six-month rotation on the ISS.
- The mission will mark the final planned Falcon 9 landing at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1 as NASA’s Commercial Crew Program infrastructure evolves.