Overview

• The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday from Kennedy Space Center after an initial weather scrub, carrying the reusable Crew Dragon Endeavour on its sixth mission.
• Mission commander Zena Cardman and pilot Mike Fincke lead the crew alongside JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov on their first and second spaceflights respectively.
• Endeavour will autonomously berth at the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 3 a.m. EDT Saturday to relieve the outgoing Crew-10 team.
• Crew-11 represents the 11th operational astronaut rotation to the ISS under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program using SpaceX’s Dragon and Falcon 9 vehicles.
• Over their six-month expedition, the astronauts will conduct human health and biotechnology experiments in microgravity to support NASA’s Artemis human research objectives.