NASA and SpaceX have launched the 11th operational crew rotation mission to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew Program, Crew-11. Liftoff occurred at 11:43 AM EDT (15:43 UTC) on Friday, Aug. 1, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch was initially scheduled for Thursday, July 31, but, following a weather violation, the launch was scrubbed at T-01:09 minutes.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endeavour delivered four new NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos crew members to the floating laboratory for a multi-month stay as part of Expedition 73/74. Crew-11 will serve as Crew Dragon Endeavour‘s sixth flight to the Station and Falcon 9 booster B1094’s third flight to space. Following launch and stage separation, B1094 performed a return-to-launch-site landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.