NASA's Crew-11 team arrives at the International Space Station

NASA broadcast the Crew-11 team's space journey live on the X account.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule, named "Endeavour," were successfully launched from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The capsule carrying the team consisting of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) reached the ISS after a journey of approximately 15 hours.

Crew-11, which will spend approximately six months aboard the ISS, will conduct landing simulations near the Moon's south pole, tests to reduce the effects of microgravity on astronauts' vision, and experiments to examine how plant cells divide in space.

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In a statement from NASA, it was stated that after the Crew-11 team arrives at the station, the Crew-10 team, which reached the ISS in March 2025 and completed its mission, will begin preparations to return to Earth with the Dragon spacecraft.

Crew-11 is the 11th operational flight conducted in collaboration with SpaceX under NASA's "Commercial Crew Program."

SpaceX provides the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for these missions, while NASA assigns astronauts and conducts the mission's scientific planning.