NASA crew readies for ISS mission launch on Thursday
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NASA crew readies for ISS mission launch on Thursday
Astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov will travel from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A to the ISS. The crew landed at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at 1:12 EDT after leaving from Houston on Saturday morning. Thursday’s launch is scheduled at 12:09 p.m. EDT and would enable the Endeavor to dock at the ISS on Aug. 2 if the launch occurs as planned. The four crew members will join Expedition 73, which already is at the International Space Station, and an Expedition 74 crew is scheduled to replace the Crew 11 team.
Astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency specialist Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will travel from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A to the ISS while aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour.
Cardman is the mission’s leader. The crew landed at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at 1:12 EDT after leaving from Houston on Saturday morning.
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“We are absolutely joyed to be here at Kennedy Space Center,” Cardman said upon the crew’s landing.
“This is the first moment when it’s really starting to feel real,” she said. “This is the beginning of a week when things will feel progressively more and more real as we approach our launch.”
NASA Crew 11 Pilot Mike Finke said he looks forward to a second mission aboard a spacecraft named Endeavour after NASA’s Crew 11 team landed in Florida on Saturday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
Mission pilot Fincke said the mission gives him another chance to fly aboard a spacecraft named Endeavour.
“One of the last times I landed at the [Florida launch and landing facility] was on space shuttle Endeavour,” Fincke told media.
NASA’s international Crew 11 arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday and is comprised of, from left, JAXA Astronaut Kimiya Yui, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Finke, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
“Now we get to go on another endeavor – a Dragon Endeavour,” he said.
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The Endeavour name honors the HMS Endeavour, which British Capt. James Cook used to explore and chart the South Pacific from 1768 to 1771.
Crew 11 Mission Specialist and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui gives a thumbs up after speaking to the media at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday and ahead of the mission’s scheduled launch on July 31. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Endeavor into low Earth orbit, which will make the Crew Dragon spacecraft the most flown among SpaceX’s fleet.
Thursday’s launch is scheduled at 12:09 p.m. EDT and would enable the Endeavor to dock at the ISS on Aug. 2 if the launch occurs as planned.
Crew 11 Mission Specialist and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov speaks to the media after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
The four crew members will join Expedition 73, which already is at the ISS.
An Expedition 74 crew is scheduled to replace the Expedition 73 crew while the Crew 11 team is at the ISS.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-crew-readies-iss-mission-210235030.html