Overview
- Crew-11 lifted off at 11:43 a.m. EDT on August 1 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A after Thursday’s scrub due to unfavorable weather
- The four-member crew comprises commander Zena Cardman, pilot Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, marking first flights for Cardman and Platonov Dragon Endeavour is set to perform an autonomous docking with the ISS Harmony module at approximately 3 a.m. EDT Saturday to begin Expedition 74
- Mission objectives include simulating lunar landing scenarios, testing vision-protection measures, studying plant cell division and bacterial therapies, and producing stem cells in microgravity
- The flight marks the 11th crew rotation under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and highlights SpaceX’s reuse of the Endeavour capsule on its sixth mission