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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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