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SpaceX moves his crew Dragon Capsule “Endavour” in Pad 39a in the Kennedy Space Center of the NASA in Florida before the planned start of the crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA on July 31, 2025. SpaceX posted this photo on July 24, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX over X
SpaceX has just taken a big step towards the next astronaut start.
The company announced on Thursday (July 24) that his crew Dragon Capsule “Endavour” moved to the Hangar in the Historic Pad 39a in the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida.
At the end, on a Falcon 9 rocket from PAD 39A of most Apollo Moon missions, including Apollo 11-am July 31, starting to start the SpaceX’s Mission from SpaceX to NASA.
Effect in Pad 39a in the hangar. | Credit: SpaceX over X
Crew-11 will send four people to the ISS for a six-month stint: NASA-astronauten Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke together with Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov from Roscosmos of Russia. It will be the first room flight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui and the fourth for Fincke.
The quartet will relieve the four astronauts of the SpaceX crew, which have been living in the surrounding laboratory since March 16 and will leave a few days after the arrival of crew-11.
Crew-11 will be the sixth mission for EndAvour, which shares its name with one of the retired space shuttles of NASA. Endeavour flew more astronaut missions than any other SpaceX capsule, and it was also the first company vehicle to do this. Endavour flew demo-2, SpaceX ‘first crewed flight, a test mission that the NASA astronaut Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley sent to the ISS in 2020.
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As the name suggests, Crew-11 will be the 11th mission of the operational astronauts that SpaceX flies to NASA to the ISS. But the company also has a number of other crew flights in the belt.
For example, there are demo-2. SpaceX also launched four astronaut flights to the ISS for the Axiom Space company based in Houston and two freely flying occupation missions for the orbit. These two latter inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn were financed and commanded by the billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who until recently was President Donald Trump’s election.
