SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew to ISS in NASA's Crew-11 missionbr br An international crew of four astronauts launches toward the International Space Station from Florida on Aug. 1, 2025 aboard a SpaceX rocket, beating gloomy weather to embark on a routine NASA mission that could be the first of many to last a couple months longer than usual. The four-person astronaut crew - NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. - boarded SpaceX's Dragon capsule sitting atop its Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and blasted off at 11:43 a.m. ET (1543 GMT). They will arrive at the ISS on Aug. 2.