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NASA and Roscosmos Extend ISS Operations Through 2028, Crew-11 Docks With ISS

Crew-11’s docking underscores sustained U.S.-Russian cooperation, launching six months of Artemis lunar simulations, with subsequent crop growth studies.

L’Europe, le Japon, les États-Unis et la Russie coopèrent dans l’ISS, qui a commencé à être assemblée en 1998.
Une fusée Falcon Nine de SpaceX décolle du Complexe de Lancement 39A transportant la mission Crew-11 de la NASA vers la Station Spatiale Internationale, à Cape Canaveral, Floride, États-Unis, le 1er août 2025.
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Une fusée de SpaceX transportant la capsule Crew Dragon décolle du Centre spatial Kennedy de la Nasa, en Floride, le 1er août 2025.

Overview

  • Dmitry Bakanov and NASA’s Sean Duffy met face-to-face in Houston for the first time since 2018 and agreed to operate the ISS through 2028 with deorbit planning until 2030.
  • The SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on August 1 carrying Crew-11, and the Endeavour capsule docked early August 2 over the Pacific.
  • Over the next six months, Crew-11 will run lunar landing simulations designed for Artemis missions and assess astronaut piloting performance in microgravity.
  • The mission includes comparative growth experiments for Armenian pomegranates grown onboard and on Earth to study microgravity’s impact on plant development.
  • Since the shuttle’s retirement, NASA has relied on Commercial Crew partnerships with SpaceX to sustain continuous human access to the orbiting laboratory.