US EditionPittsburgh Area Native Pilots Crew-11 Mission to ISS on SpaceX Falcon 9
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, JUL 31 – The mission highlights ongoing U.S.-Russian space cooperation despite geopolitical tensions, with a crew rotation and talks on extending astronaut seat exchanges and ISS disposal plans.
- On July 31, NASA's Kennedy Space Center hosted a launch for the current Expedition 73/74 crew, with NASA and Roscosmos leaders observing after the scheduled launch was scrubbed. The crew will return to Earth after their mission.
- Despite tensions over the Ukraine war, U.S. and Russian space agencies continue ISS cooperation, with leaders meeting at Kennedy Space Center.
- The Crew-11 mission launched aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon following a weather delay, with docking scheduled around 3 a.m. ET Saturday.
- In their discussions, NASA said late Thursday the chiefs discussed cooperation in space, while Roscosmos reported talks covered ISS work, lunar programs, and deep space exploration.
- The Crew-11 mission may be the first of many eight-month expeditions to align U.S. and Russian mission schedules.
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Astronaut crew launches to ISS after being sidelined by Boeing's troubled Starliner
The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four rocketed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. They’ll replace colleagues who launched to the space station in March as fill-ins for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.
The two American astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, the Japanese Kimiya Yui and the Russian Oleg Platonov took off at 1143 local time (1743 hours in Paris) from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, aboard the Falcon-9 rocket.
Spacemen have started with SpaceX to the ISS – including a commander, a spaceman and a cosmonaut. After a weather-related delay, the crew will soon undertake research work in space.
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A capsule of space company SpaceX brings a crew of four into space. The weather had initially postponed the launch.
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