SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at 11:43 a.m. Eastern on Aug. 1, sending the Crew-11 quartet—NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov—toward the International Space Station. The launch followed a weather-related scrub earlier in the week and proceeded under a 60% probability of acceptable conditions. After a flight of roughly 15 hours, Crew Dragon autonomously docked with the orbital laboratory at 2:26 a.m. ET on Aug. 2. Hatches opened about two hours later, bringing the station’s headcount to 11 for the hand-over period. The four newcomers will conduct science and maintenance aboard the ISS for approximately six months before relieving the crew that arrived in March. Crew-11 is the eleventh operational rotation that NASA has entrusted to SpaceX under its Commercial Crew contract, underscoring the growing routine of private crewed transport to low-Earth orbit.