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Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Science
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Pennsylvania native flying on next SpaceX Dragon flight
(WHTM) – A Pennsylvania native will be part of a four-person crew flying on the next SpaceX Dragon launch. NASA says Allegheny County native and veteran astronaut Mike Fincke will make his fourth trip to the International Space Station on a SpaceX flight scheduled for this summer. The SpaceX Crew-11 mission will take Fincke, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov from the Kennedy Space Center to the ISS. The crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company's Falcon 9 rocket in either late July or early August. NASA says the crew will 'conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions to the Moon, as well as benefit people on Earth.' Fincke has logged 382 days in space and nine spacewalks in his first three missions, the last of which was in 2011. The commander on Fincke's last mission was astronaut Mark Kelly, who now serves in the United States Senate. This will be Platonov's and Cardman's first spaceflight, while Tui has made one previous trip to space. The crew is scheduled to return to Earth in 2026. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts put things into perspective
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This photo shows NASA's next crew to fly to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Crew-11, posing for a photo during a recent visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left to right: Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman of NASA and JAXA astronaut Kimiya them is a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket awaiting, like them, its next launch. The photo was taken inside SpaceX's Hangar X at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Serving as SpaceX's rocket assembly building, the company erected Hangar X just outside the perimeter of Launch Complex 39A so rockets ready to fly can easily roll out on a transporter and be erected atop the launch pad. At the angle the photograph was taken, the four crew members either look really, really tiny or the Falcon 9 rocket looks really, really large. Depending on your perspective, the whole scene may look like a set of miniatures, positioned and photographed to appear like the real-life scene it is. You can read more about the astronauts and cosmonaut assigned to fly on Crew-11.
