SpaceX Crew-11<\/a>.<\/p>\n“This is a great crew,” Fincke said Saturday. “We are looking forward to launching soon.”<\/p>\n
Fincke and his fellow crew members arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida ahead of Thursday\u2019s scheduled launch.<\/p>\n
“I’m personally looking forward to going back up to the space station. I helped build it, and now I get to see it in its full maturity with six other crewmates,” Fincke said.<\/p>\n
The launch is set for 12:09 p.m. Thursday. If all goes as planned, Crew 11 will dock with the International Space Station at 3 a.m. Aug. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s newest international crew is ready for liftoff, and a local astronaut is among them.Mike Fincke, of Emsworth,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4173,30591,5668,33237,2808,33230,3631,2645,21325,24022,33228,33234,718,33229,33232,33231,33235,79,193,33233,1513,33236,16597],"class_list":["post-41143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astronauts","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-crew-11","tag-fellow-crew-member","tag-florida","tag-great-crew","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss","tag-launch","tag-liftoff","tag-mike-fincke","tag-mission-pilot","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-crew","tag-new-international-crew","tag-pittsburgh-astronaut","tag-pittsburgh-area-astronaut","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-station","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-crew-11","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}