The following 4 folks to launch to the Worldwide Area Station have arrived at their launch website.
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov flew on a NASA plane from Ellington Discipline in Houston, Texas to Kennedy Area Heart (KSC) in Florida on Saturday (July 26). They touched down at Area Florida’s Launch and Touchdown Facility (LLF) at 1:12 p.m. EDT (1712) GMT.
“We’re completely joyed to be right here at Kennedy Area Heart,” stated Cardman, Crew-11 commander. “That is the primary second when it is actually beginning to really feel actual. That is the start of every week when issues will really feel progressively increasingly more actual as we method our launch.”
Cardman, Fincke, Yui and Platonov are scheduled to launch because the members of SpaceX’s Crew-11 aboard the Dragon “Endeavour” on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC’s Launch Complicated 39A on Thursday (July 31) at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT). Ought to the flight go as deliberate, they’ll dock to the orbiting laboratory subsequent Saturday (Aug. 2) to hitch the station’s Expedition 73 (and later Expedition 74) crew.
“Boy, it is nice to be again,” stated Fincke, Crew-11 pilot.” “One of many final instances I landed on the on the [LLF] was on house shuttle Endeavour, and now we get to go on one other endeavor, a Dragon Endeavour, this time.”
On Friday, mission managers gave their “go” for launch preparations to proceed after concluding a flight readiness overview.
“We’re trying ahead to launching quickly,” stated Fincke.
