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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.

Crew-11 astronauts to undergo 14-day isolation with medical screenings before launch
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JSC98121201 - 12 DECEMBER 1998 - JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TEXAS, USA: Space Shuttle Endeavor astronaut James H. Newman wraps up a spacewalk as he and fellow mission specialist Jerry L. Ross (out of frame) near the completion of their third and final scheduled space walk December 12, to assemble the first elements of the International Space Station. Newman holds onto handrails on the U.S.-built Unity connecting module (f

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.