Overview

• The Crew Dragon Endeavour autonomously docked to the Harmony module at about 3 a.m. EDT on August 2, commencing a planned six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
• The four-member international crew includes commander Zena Cardman and pilot Mike Fincke of NASA alongside JAXA’s Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, with two members on their first spaceflight.
• Crew-11 overlaps briefly with its March-arrived predecessors to sustain the station’s continuous staffing during its 25th year of uninterrupted human habitation.
• Mission tasks include studies on fluid pressure regulation, vitamin processing, stem cell cultivation, phage therapy and lunar landing simulations to support Artemis and future Mars expeditions.
• Endeavour is flying its sixth mission on a reused Falcon 9 rocket, marking the 11th crew rotation under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.