SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Docks at International Space Station

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday at 2:26 a.m. EDT, completing the journey in under 15 hours after launching from Florida. The arrival marks the sixth mission for Endeavour, SpaceX's most frequently used crew capsule, and coincides with the fifth anniversary of the Demo-2 test flight, which also used Endeavour for SpaceX's first crewed mission.

The Crew-11 team is led by NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, with pilot Mike Fincke of NASA, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Oleg Platonov of Russia's Roscosmos serving as mission specialists. This mission is the first spaceflight for Cardman and Platonov, the second for Yui, and the fourth for Fincke.

Upon arrival, the Crew-11 astronauts join seven current ISS residents, including JAXA's Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Jonny Kim, and Russian cosmonauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky. Crew-11 will relieve Ayers, McClain, Onishi, and Peskov, who are scheduled to return to Earth after a brief handover period.

This mission is SpaceX's 11th operational crewed flight to the ISS for NASA, in addition to eight other crewed missions, including private and free-flying flights.