NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station
NASA and its partners will discuss the next rotation of the crew at the International Space Station during a pair of press conferences on Thursday, July 10 of the Agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The first is a press conference at 12 p.m. to 12 p.m. PA with Mission Leadership discussing the final launch and mission preparations on the agency’s YouTube channel.
Then CREW will participate in a press conference at 2 p.m. on the NASA YouTube channel, followed by individual astronauts interviews at 3 p.m., this is the last media opportunity with Crew-11 before going to the Kennedy Space Center in NASA in Florida for the launch.
The mission of the crew-11, intended to launch at the end of July / early August, will carry the astronauts of NASA Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov at the orbit laboratory. The crew will be launched aboard a Dragon Spacex spacecraft on the Falcon 9 rocket from the Launch Complex 39A company.
Media based on the United States seeking to attend in person must contact the NASA Johnson press room at the latest at 5 p.m. Monday July 7 at 281-483-511 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. A copy of the NASA media accreditation policy is available online.
Any media interested in participating in press conferences by phone must contact the Johnson press room at 9:45 a.m. on the day of the event. The media looking for virtual interviews with the crew must submit requests to the Johnson press room before 5 p.m. on Monday, July 7.
Information participants are as follows (all time is and subject to a change according to real -time operations):
12 noon: press conference seen from the mission
- Steve Stich, Director, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
- Bill Spetch, Operations Integration Manager, International Space Station Program, Nasa Johnson
- Representative of the Directorate of the NASA Space Operations Mission
- Sarah Walker, Director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
- Mayumi Matsuura, vice-president and general manager, Direction of human space flight technology, Jaxa
2 p.m.: Crew press conference
- Zena Cardman, crew-11 crew, NASA
- Mike Fincke, crew-11 pilot, NASA
- Kimiya Yui, specialist in the mission of the crew-11, Jaxa
- Oleg Platonov, specialist in the crew-11 crew mission, Roscosmos
3 p.m.: Crew of individual interview opportunities
- Members of the crew-11 available for a limited number of interviews
Selected as NASA astronaut in 2017, Cardman will direct his first space flight. The native of Williamsburg, in Virginia, holds a baccalaureate in biology and a master’s degree in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. At the time of the selection, she continued a doctorate in geosciences. Cardman’s geobiology and research on geochemical cycling have focused on underground environments, from caves to sediments in the deep sea. Since the initial training, Cardman has supported station operations in real time and planning the exploration of the lunar surface. Follow @zenanaut on x and @zenanaut on Instagram.
It will be the fourth trip from Fincke to the space station, having recorded 382 days in space and nine space balls during expedition 9 in 2004, Expedition 18 in 2008 and STS-134 in 2011, the last flight of the Endeavour space shuttle. Over the past decade, Fincke has applied its expertise to the NASA commercial crew program, making the development and tests of the Spacex Spacex and the Boeing Starliner spaceship progress towards operational certification. The native of EMSWorth, in Pennsylvania, graduated from the United States Force Test Pilot School and holds baccalaureate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, both in aeronautics and astronautics, as well as the earth, the atmospheric and planetary sciences. He also holds a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics of the University of Stanford in California. FINCKE is an Air Force retirement colonel with more than 2,000 hours of flight in more than 30 different planes. Follow @astroinonmike on x and Instagram.
With 142 days in space, it will be Yui’s second trip to the space station. After his selection of Jaxa astronaut in 2009, Yui stolen as a flight engineer for Expedition 44/45 and became the first Japanese astronaut to capture the H-II transfer vehicle in Jaxa using the station’s robotic arm. In addition to building a new experimental environment aboard the Kibo, he led a total of 21 experiences for Jaxa. In November 2016, Yui was affected as the leader of the Jaxa Astronaut group. He graduated from the School of Sciences and Engineering at the National Defense Academy of Japan in 1992. He then joined the Air Air Force at the Japan Defense Agency (currently the Ministry of Defense). In 2008, Yui joined the Air Staff office at the Ministry of Defense as a lieutenant-colonel. Follow @Antro_kimiya on X.
The CREW-11 mission will also be Platonov’s first space flight. Before his selection of cosmonaut in 2018, Platonov obtained an engineering diploma from the Krasnodar Air Force Academy in plane operations and in air traffic management. He also obtained a baccalaureate in states and municipal management in 2016 from the Federal University of the Far East Vladivostok, Russia. Affected as a test cosmonaut in 2021, he has experience in piloting planes, zero gravity training, scuba diving and wilderness survival.
For more information on the mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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Claire O’Shea / Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
Claire.a.o’Shea@nasa.gov / joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones / Joseph Zakrzewski
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
Sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov / joseph.a.zakrzewski@nasa.gov
