Three astronauts and one astronaut sent as part of the CEW-11 mission, implemented in the NASA and SpaceX cooperation, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a 15-hour flight.
As reported in NASA, the launch and docking were broadcast through the official agency’s official account on the social network X.
The Falcon 9 Boat of SpaceX with the Dragon piloted ship, called Endeavour, successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aerospace studies (JAXA) of Kimia Yui and the astronaut of the Goskosmos State Corporation Oleg Platonov. After approximately 15 hours of flight, their ship was successfully attached to the ISS.
on board the station, the mission participants will spend about six months, during which they will take care of scientific experiments. Among them are the modeling of landing in the area of the South Pole of the Moon, research on minimizing the negative effects of microgravity on the vision of astronauts, as well as experiments on studying the division of plant cells in conditions of zero gravity.
in NASA added that after the arrival of the CEW-11, the Earth’s reversal flight will begin to be prepared for the previous mission of the Cred-10, which arrived at the Earth, which arrived at ISS in March 2025.
The Crew-11 mission is the eleventh manned flight as part of the NASA program for commercial manned missions implemented together with SpaceX. As part of the SpaceX program, the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon are launched, and NASA is responsible for the preparation of the crew and the scientific component of the flight.