NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Flight Crew Arrive at Launch Site
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Flight Crew Arrive at Launch Site
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Flight Crew Arrive at Launch Site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is slated about three hours from now, at 11:43 a.m. EDT. Pad A helped usher in a new era of human spaceflight as launch pad for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Pad B saw the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission in November 2022.
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke arrive at Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. NASA+
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 crew NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, arrived at Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft stands ready for launch. Liftoff is slated about three hours from now, at 11:43 a.m. EDT.
In the next few minutes, the crew will take the elevator up the pad’s fixed service structure and walk down the air-conditioned crew access arm to the White Room, their final stop before climbing aboard their Dragon spacecraft.
Since the late 1960s, pads A and B at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 have supported America’s major space programs, with Pad A used most frequently for launches under the Space Shuttle Program. After the retirement of the shuttle in 2011, Pad A helped usher in a new era of human spaceflight as launch pad for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which returned human spaceflight capability to the United States. Pad B saw the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission in November 2022 and will continue to be the primary launch pad for America’s efforts to return to humans the Moon.