NASA and its companions will talk about the upcoming crew rotation to the Worldwide Area Station throughout a pair of stories conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the company’s Johnson Area Heart in Houston.
First is an outline information convention at 12 p.m. EDT with mission management discussing closing launch and mission preparations on the company’s YouTube channel.
Subsequent, crew will take part in a information convention at 2 p.m. on NASA’s YouTube channel, adopted by particular person astronaut interviews at 3 p.m. That is the ultimate media alternative with Crew-11 earlier than they journey to NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida for launch.
The Crew-11 mission, focused to launch in late July/early August, will carry NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the orbiting laboratory. The crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complicated 39A.
United States-based media searching for to attend in particular person should contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, July 7, at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. A duplicate of NASA’s media accreditation coverage is obtainable on-line.
Any media considering collaborating within the information conferences by cellphone should contact the Johnson newsroom by 9:45 a.m. the day of the occasion. Media searching for digital interviews with the crew should submit requests to the Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m. on Monday, July 7.
Briefing members are as follows (all occasions Jap and topic to alter based mostly on real-time operations):
12 p.m.: Mission Overview Information Convention
- Steve Stich, supervisor, Business Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
- Invoice Spetch, operations integration supervisor, Worldwide Area Station Program, NASA Johnson
- NASA’s Area Operations Mission Directorate consultant
- Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Administration, SpaceX
- Mayumi Matsuura, vp and director basic, Human Spaceflight Know-how Directorate, JAXA
2 p.m.: Crew Information Convention
- Zena Cardman, Crew-11 commander, NASA
- Mike Fincke, Crew-11 pilot, NASA
- Kimiya Yui, Crew-11 mission specialist, JAXA
- Oleg Platonov, Crew-11 mission specialist, Roscosmos
3 p.m.: Crew Particular person Interview Alternatives
- Crew-11 members accessible for a restricted variety of interviews
Chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2017, Cardman will conduct her first spaceflight. The Williamsburg, Virginia, native holds a bachelor’s diploma in Biology and a grasp’s in Marine Sciences from the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On the time of choice, she was pursuing a doctorate in geosciences. Cardman’s geobiology and geochemical biking analysis centered on subsurface environments, from caves to deep sea sediments. Since finishing preliminary coaching, Cardman has supported real-time station operations and lunar floor exploration planning. Observe @zenanaut on X and @zenanaut on Instagram.
This might be Fincke’s fourth journey to the house station, having logged 382 days in house and 9 spacewalks throughout Expedition 9 in 2004, Expedition 18 in 2008, and STS-134 in 2011, the ultimate flight of house shuttle Endeavour. All through the previous decade, Fincke has utilized his experience to NASA’s Business Crew Program, advancing the event and testing of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Boeing Starliner spacecraft towards operational certification. The Emsworth, Pennsylvania, native is a graduate of america Air Pressure Check Pilot Faculty and holds bachelors’ levels from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, Cambridge, in each aeronautics and astronautics, in addition to Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences. He additionally has a grasp’s diploma in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford College in California. Fincke is a retired U.S. Air Pressure colonel with greater than 2,000 flight hours in over 30 totally different plane. Observe @AstroIronMike on X and Instagram.
With 142 days in house, this might be Yui’s second journey to the house station. After his choice as a JAXA astronaut in 2009, Yui flew as a flight engineer for Expedition 44/45 and have become the primary Japanese astronaut to seize JAXA’s H-II Switch Car utilizing the station’s robotic arm. Along with developing a brand new experimental atmosphere aboard Kibo, he carried out a complete of 21 experiments for JAXA. In November 2016, Yui was assigned as chief of the JAXA Astronaut Group. He graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering on the Nationwide Protection Academy of Japan in 1992. He later joined the Air Self-Protection Pressure on the Japan Protection Company (at present the Ministry of Protection). In 2008, Yui joined the Air Workers Workplace on the Ministry of Protection as a lieutenant colonel. Observe @astro_kimiya on X.
The Crew-11 mission additionally might be Platonov’s first spaceflight. Earlier than his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, Platonov earned a level in engineering from Krasnodar Air Pressure Academy in plane operations and air site visitors administration. He additionally earned a bachelor’s diploma in state and municipal administration in 2016 from the Far Jap Federal College in Vladivostok, Russia. Assigned as a check cosmonaut in 2021, he has expertise in piloting plane, zero gravity coaching, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.
For extra details about the mission, go to:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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Claire O’Shea / Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov / joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones / Joseph Zakrzewski
Johnson Area Heart, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov / Joseph.a.zakrzewski@nasa.gov
