On July 26, 2025, the four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission made their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a crucial milestone ahead of their scheduled liftoff to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 31. This arrival comes after their departure from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, where they boarded a NASA aircraft and flew to …
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NASA’s newest international crew is ready for liftoff, and a local astronaut is among them.Mike Fincke, of Emsworth, is the mission pilot for SpaceX Crew-11.”This is a great crew,” Fincke said Saturday. “We are looking forward to launching soon.”Fincke and his fellow crew members arrived at Cape Canaveral in Florida ahead of Thursday’s scheduled launch.”I’m personally looking forward to going …
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SpaceX aborted the launch of two communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with two of SES’ O3b mPOWER internet spacecraft was set to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT) on Monday. But it didn’t quite happen: SpaceX called an abort just 11 seconds …
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