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NASA Crew-11 Enters Quarantine Ahead of July ISS Launch

They entered a two-week health-stabilization quarantine at Johnson Space Center to safeguard crew health ahead of final spacecraft system checkouts.

Overview

  • The Crew-11 team began its two-week pre-launch quarantine on July 17 under Apollo-era health-stabilization protocols to prevent inflight illness.
  • Teams will complete integrated checkouts of Dragon Endeavour and its Falcon 9 booster at Kennedy Space Center before a no-earlier-than 12:09 p.m. EDT July 31 liftoff from LC-39A.
  • The four-person crew—NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA’s Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos’s Oleg Platonov—will support a six-month science expedition aboard the ISS.
  • Planned research includes plant cell division studies, bacteriophage behavior in microgravity, stem cell production and on-demand nutrient generation to advance lunar and deep-space exploration.
  • As NASA’s 11th operational Commercial Crew rotation and the 16th crewed Dragon flight, Crew-11 will rely on Dragon’s autonomous docking system at the station’s Harmony module.