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The crew-11 astronauts in their spaceship of the Crew Dragon “Endavour”. | Credit: NASA
The Astronauten mission of SpaceXs Crew-11 will arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday morning (August 2) and you can watch the campaign live.
The Crew Dragon Capsule from Crew-11 called Endavor is scheduled to create on Saturday with the ISS around 3 a.m. (0700 GMT), just 15 hours after the start on a Falcon 9 rocket from Floridas Space Coast.
You can watch the rendezvous via NASA live, and Space.com will bring the agency’s feed with it if it is made available. The reporting begins at 1 a.m. Edt (0500 GMT) and runs until at least 5:45 a.m. Edt (0945 GMT) if a welcome ceremony is to take place.
The docking takes place five years after the splashdown of SpaceX’s all the crew mission, the demo-2 test flight that the NASA astronaut Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley sent for a two-month stay in the ISS. Demo-2 also used the Crew Dragon Endavour.
Crew-11 is commanded by the NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Her crew members are the NASA-Spaceflyer Mike Fincke, the crew-11 pilot Kimiya Yui from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) and Oleg Platonov by Roscosmos Russia’s Roscosmos. The latter are both mission specialists.
This is the first space flight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke. And it is the sixth trip to the last border for the EndaPour, SpaceX’s most-placed crew capsule.
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The crew-11 quartet will join seven people who already live on board the circulation: Jaxas Takuya Onishi, commander of the current mission of the station expedition 73; Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and Jonny Kim von Nasa; and cosmonauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zurbritsky.
The crew-11 astronauts will relieve Ayers, McClain, Onishi and Peskov, which arrived on SpaceX ‘crew 10 mission to the ISS in mid-March. The crew 10 quartet will return to Earth in a few days after spending some time and shared something knowledge with her crew 11 colleagues.
As the name suggests, Crew-11 flew to the ISS of the 11th operational astronaut mission SpaceX for NASA. SpaceX also has eight other crew flights under his belt demo-2, four private efforts to the surrounding laboratory, which is operated by the Houston Company Axiom Space, and three missions for free fly to Orbit (Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn and Fram2).
