NASA and its commercial partners are preparing two crewed flights to the International Space Station within a five-week span, reflecting the agency’s intensified reliance on private vehicles for low-Earth-orbit operations. The first mission on the manifest is Axiom Mission 4, a privately funded flight being coordinated with Axiom Space and SpaceX. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:31 a.m. EDT (0631 UTC) on Wednesday, 25 June, from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. According to NASA, the four-person crew includes astronauts from the European Space Agency and India’s ISRO and will travel to the orbital outpost for a short, commercially sponsored stay. Attention then shifts to NASA’s own Crew-11 rotation flight. Commander Zena Cardman and pilot Mike Fincke of NASA, mission specialist Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov touched down at Kennedy on 26 July to begin final launch preparations. Their Falcon 9 launch, targeted for 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 UTC) on 31 July, will send Dragon "Endeavour" on its sixth flight and mark the eleventh crew-rotation mission performed for NASA under SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contract. The Crew-11 expedition is slated to last at least six months and will coincide with celebrations marking 25 years of uninterrupted human habitation aboard the space station. Flight readiness reviews have cleared both launches to proceed, with weather the principal remaining variable, underscoring continued international cooperation in orbit despite geopolitical tensions on the ground.