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NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Arrival at Kennedy Space Center
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Roger.
I feel the liftoff. The clock has started.
Roger. Zero G and I feel fine. Speed
tranquility base here. The angle has landed.
landed.
Roger Tranquility. We copy you on the
ground. New possibilities are opening up
for scientific cooperation between countries.
countries. 1
lift off America's first phase as
Discovery clears the tower.
Discovery go up.
Discovery, Roger, go for deploy.
Everybody in the shuttle program.
Nice to be in orbit. We have followed in
our footsteps to get us where we are today.
[Music] Heat. Heat.
Good to see you. Good to see you. Good
Good afternoon everyone. Exciting day
here at Kennedy Space Center as we
welcome the crew 11 flight crew ahead of
their liftoff on a mission to the
International Space Station. I am Steve
Cisoff with NASA's office of
communication. And with us having just
arrived from Houston, we have NASA
astronauts Commander Zena Cardman, pilot
Mike Frink, JAXA astronaut Kima Yui, and
Russ Cosmos cosminaut Oleg Platanov.
We're going to hear from the crew in
just a minute and also take a take a few
media questions from the group here
gathered at the runway. Liftoff of the
Crew 11 mission is slated for Thursday,
July 31st at 12:09 p.m. Eastern time.
You'll be able to watch that on NASA
plus and on NASA's streaming channels.
And with that, I will hand it over to Zena.
Good afternoon everyone. We are
absolutely joyed to be here at Kennedy
Space Center. It's wonderful to see
everyone who's here in person and thank
you so much to those tuning in remotely.
It's my privilege to be here with a
wonderful crew. Mike, Kima, Aleg have
been fantastic teammates this entire
time. We've been training together for
over a year now and we are ready to fly.
Kennedy Space Center landing here at the
shuttle landing facility. For me
personally, as a first-time flyer, this
is the first moment when it's really
starting to feel real. This is the
beginning of a week when things will
feel progressively more and more real as
we approach our launch currently slated
for the 31st. This is also a place of
incredible history, and I'm so honored
to be here with a crew taking part in
this long history of human space flight.
I am a first-time flyer, but we have the
privilege of flying with uh people who
have flown before and seen the
International Space Station growing from
its very beginning. It will be our honor
to join Expedition 73 on board the
International Space Station and to be
there for the 25th anniversary of the
ISS. It's so special to take part in
something as grand as this human
spaceflight endeavor that takes so many
people, many of whom have flown here
with us today, many of whom are at home
in Houston or in our uh other homes
around the world from Japan, uh from
Russia, and uh all of our training
centers across the globe, including
Cologne and in Hawthorne, California.
Thank you so much to those of you who
are here, and I want to leave it to my
crew mates to say a few more words. We
look forward to taking your questions.
Boy, it's great to be back and uh and it
was great to like Zena said uh to land
on the at the shuttle landing facility.
Uh one of the last times I landed on the
at the SLF was uh on a space shuttle on
Endeavor. And now we get to go on
another Endeavor, a Dragon Endeavor uh
this time. And uh what a great crew to
to launch with. I've been on different
crews before, but this one's
exceptional. Zena, you wouldn't know
that she's a first-time flyer. She
brings in so much experience and
compassion as a commander. Uh Kiman,
uh Yui from Japan, fellow uh um
experienced guy really he always has
something wise to say. and Oleg
Platanov. Uh his sense of humor is even
funnier than mine, so I got to take some
notes. He's a he's a a great guy to fly
with. So, this is a great crew. We're
looking forward to to to launching soon.
Um I've been uh like to throw out a few
extra thanks. Like Zena said, we are a
humble and grateful crew. That's uh kind
of some of our our mottos. But we really
um we really uh want to say thanks to uh
the the teams that got us ready, the
teams from SpaceX and our also to the
commercial crew program who worked extra
hard to get us on on time so that we can
support the International Space Station
program for all the fantastic things
that are going on with the space
station. I'm personally looking forward
to to uh going back up to the space
station. I helped build it and now I'm
get to get to uh see it in its full
maturity with uh six other crew mates.
So without further ado, uh again, thank
you for being here. Sorry for the heat,
but it's Florida in the summertime. It's
pretty nice. And uh here's my good
Thank you for coming. I'm Kimya Yui. I'm
so grateful to be here as a part of this
great team crew 11. I believe this crew
11 member is one of the best ever and I
like this crew member because we respect
each other uh each other's I mean uh
cultural differences language
differences quite international and I
think during this mission we'll be able
to show a good example of like
international cooperations because of
this very international good great team
and we trained together a long time so
we are we were ready like my hair
hairstyle. So, I'm looking forward to
fly uh with these great crew members.
And also, I'd like to say thank you uh
to everybody who is supporting this
mission. Without uh everybody's help uh
we cannot fly. And uh my moto is guts
and hard work. So, I'd like to I do my
best for uh the mission success and I
work hard for the people who is
supporting everybody including you guys
Hello everybody. My name is Ole Platonaf
and I am mission specialist two for our
crew crew 11. And this is my honor to be
here in the so unique and historical
place. And I'm very glad to be here. And
I'd like to say thank you very much to
NASA, to Space X, and for Roscosmas for
this unique opportunity. And I have very
super great crew and I believe and I
hope as soon as possible and on time we
Thank you everyone. We are going to open
it up now uh for media questions. Uh if
you have a question, please come up to
the microphone. Please limit it to one
question per outlet and we'll start with you.
you.
Hi, Richard Taboo. Uh Richard Taboo with
the Orlando Sentinel. This question is
for Zena. Uh you were supposed to be the
penultimate member of your at least NASA
side turtle class to make to space. that
didn't quite happen. But since you will
be the last of the NASA side for
turtles, is there anything special
related to that that you have planned
that they have planned? And what is next
Hey, thanks for the question. Yes, of
course, in space flight, the journey is
often nonlinear. It's just a privilege
to be here with this crew especially. I
have the privilege of overlapping with
one of my classmates, Johnny Kim, who's
currently on board as a member of
expedition 73. I also have the privilege
of flying with Kimmy Ui, whose patch has
a turtle on it, and so that makes him an
honorary turtle in my heart. Um, and of
course, I'm just the last of the US
members of my turtle class. We have
Canadian classmates as well, who I hope
to see in orbit soon. Um, it's it's such
a journey and I think although of course
for crew 9 I had many hopes, the only
thing that mattered was getting the crew
home safely and I think we all did our
Hi Will Robinson Smith with Spaceflight
Now. Good to see you all again. Uh,
question for Mike if I may. Um, since
you've been, you know, foundational in
the commercial crew program since the
get- go in 2014, I wonder now, you know,
that you're getting to fly as as part of
crew 11, if you can kind of step back
and and look at, you know, these past uh
11 crew rotation missions, the work
that's been done both on the SpaceX side
and and the Boeing side that you've been
involved in so thoroughly, and just kind
of your your sense of where we are right
Yeah, I I have lots of thoughts on that
and uh I'll try to keep it short and
sweet. Uh when we retired the space
shuttle, we had the promise and the hope
uh to continue human space flight with
uh with American rockets and spaceships.
We didn't know what they were going to
look like. Uh we came up uh in in 2014
here at the Kennedy Space Center. We
made the announcement for the commercial
crew program uh TCAP uh contract which
we named two surprisingly Boeing and
SpaceX uh com uh competitors and
partners to uh to help us get to the
space station. And it's been a really
interesting journey watching brand new
spaceships be built. Uh we had some
great ideas uh when we released TCAP and
what ended up uh was was a little bit
different but I'm very proud of of our
teams both SpaceX and Boeing uh to uh to
what they've what we've built together
and I'm really proud to actually finally
fly on a commercial crew uh spacecraft
and uh and of course I was part of the
the Boeing Starlininer story and uh
that's a different story for a different
day. Uh but uh I'm looking forward
there's a good possibility for a
Starlininer to be on board at the same
time as us and uh it's a really a
privilege and honor to know so many
different spacecraft and I'm very proud
of our American industry partners for
building some really fine space flying
machines and uh I'm really excited about
Dragon Endeavor. Uh who can imagine that
we were going to fly them six times or
even more, right? The capsules from uh
uh from SpaceX. So uh go crew 11 and go
Hi, now Kizuma with NHK. Um, this
question is for Yan. Uh, Yusan, you'll
be meeting on Sun in about a week. Um,
what do you hope to talk about uh with
when you first came in orbit? [Laughter]
[Laughter]
Yes. Uh, of course he talk about like
vegetables. I don't like vegetables, so
I don't want to see that. But first
thing I I just really want to see like
uh my koulmate I mean on is my best
friends and it's very their opportunity
to see my friends on orbit and of course
uh I just want to do a lot of like
interesting experiments on orbit and
also I just want to work with other
people uh not only in Japan but all over
the world and looking forward to do a
lot of fruitful result in this mission.
Hello, Manuel Masanti from Exploration
Pasial. Uh, a question for Cena or for
anyone on the crew that would like to
answer. We know that this mission is
going to take a little bit longer to
dock with the space station. Could you
go into a few details on on why it is
Yeah, sure. Uh, that's really dictated
by things like orbital dynamics and we
are where we are. the space station is
where it is and depending on its
altitude and the phasing that we need to
get there determines uh how long our
phasing is. That's a really roundabout
way of saying we don't decide, but we're
happy to be flying. There are limits of
course on that duration uh for many
reasons, but we're within those limits
and we trust the teams that have gotten
Hi, I'm Greg with Earth Sky. My question
is for Mike. From your experience in
space, what has been the most
significant negative effect that your
I think I lost some hair over the years.
Maybe it was space. Who knows? Uh so um
what uh I'm going to answer your
question a little differently than uh
maybe the way it was asked. Um what I'm
really proud about with the
International Space Station, when we
first started, we were really worried
about bone loss. We were had some crew
members coming back from earlier space
stations and who hadn't exercised and we
spent a lot of time and effort figuring
out how to have counter measures against
bone loss and uh we uh on my first
mission I used an interim resistive
exercise device I read um and that
helped but once we got the a- very uh
proud to be one of the two folks that
helped put it together first time myself
and Sandy Magnus uh the A-ED advanced
resistive exercise device has really
helped people with bone loss. It's still
an issue, but it's no longer as scary to
uh the NASA physiologists and and it
helps us understand what we need to do
to be ready to go to moon and Mars. So,
I'm very proud of A-Red. I got uh
because I was one of the first guys to
ever use it and um I'm proud of what
we've been able to learn uh about uh
about uh humans living in space because
we are going uh out to the moon and we
are going to Mars and we know what we're
Hi, my name is John Jack McIll. I'm with
Wot Connects TV and this question is for
each one of you. In in the morning, your
wake up alarm uh do you guys have music
or are you no non nonsense with just a
I'm a nononsense kind of person.
Otherwise, I might not ever get out of
bed. I'm the kind of person who likes to
Hi. Uh, Derek Newsome with derpace.com.
Uh, you mentioned this being the sixth
flight of Crew Dragon Endeavor, which
had originally only been certified for
up to five flights. Could you detail
some of the changes that had to be made
uh between its last flight and now to
increase that certification and
Yeah, really not a lot of changes
specifically other than making sure that
each individual component is ready to
go. Of course, the Dragon capsules get
refurbished after every single flight.
And so this one, because it's pushing
the limits, uh it's the leader as far as
experience for capsules, uh we're just
being extra careful to make sure that we
certify the entire vehicle, every detail
from the inside out, which is really
amazing. It takes a huge team of people
to do this. They've been working
non-stop for many months now. So, with
deep gratitude to that team for making
sure that we'll be safe to fly.
And that was our last question today.
Thank you so much. Um, again, this is
the crew 11 crew. They are heading to
the International Space Station. Their
liftoff is targeted for Thursday, July
31st, 12:09 p.m. Eastern time. You'll be
able to watch that countdown and liftoff
on NASA plus and on NASA's social media
channels. You also be able to uh watch
the whole week's uh countdown and
pre-launch activities on NASA's social
channels and at nasa.gov.
Thank you everyone. Have a good
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