{"id":38151,"date":"2025-08-01T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:59:09","slug":"nasas-spacex-crew-11-flight-crew-arrive-at-launch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38151\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-11 Flight Crew Arrive at Launch Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-11 crew NASA astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/zena-cardman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zena Cardman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/edward-michael-mike-fincke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Fincke<\/a>, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/humans-in-space.jaxa.jp\/en\/astronaut\/yui-kimiya\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kimiya Yui<\/a>, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, arrived at Launch Complex 39A at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft stands ready for launch. Liftoff is slated about three hours from now, at 11:43 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few minutes, the crew will take the elevator up the pad\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Since the late 1960s, pads A and B at Kennedy\u2019s Launch Complex 39 have supported America\u2019s 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\u2019s Commercial Crew Program, which returned human spaceflight capability to the United States. Pad B saw the launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission in November 2022 and will continue to be the primary launch pad for America\u2019s efforts to return to humans the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JASON-COSTA_avatar_1659036634-200x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>August 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>More from Commercial Crew Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-11 crew NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[9956,18162,12385,13620,90,416,56,54,55,18164],"class_list":["post-38151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-commercial-crew","tag-e-michael-fincke","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zena-cardman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}