SpaceX has moved one step closer to its next crewed spaceflight. On Thursday, the company announced that its Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour has been transported to the hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — the same iconic pad that once hosted historic Apollo missions, including Apollo 11.
SpaceX moves its Crew Dragon capsule "Endeavour" into a hangar at Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the planned July 31, 2025 launch of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the International Space Station for NASA. SpaceX posted this photo on X on July 24, 2025. Credit: SpaceX via X
The capsule is now being readied for its upcoming mission: Crew-11, SpaceX’s 11th operational astronaut flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff is scheduled for July 31, when Endeavour will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket for a six-month mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The Crew-11 team comprises:
- Zena Cardman (NASA) – making her first flight
- Mike Fincke (NASA) – a spaceflight veteran with three missions
- Kimiya Yui (JAXA) – returning for his second journey to space
- Oleg Platonov (Roscosmos) – also on his first flight
Once aboard the ISS, the crew will take over from the Crew-10 team, who have been aboard the station since March 16. A short handover period will follow, after which Crew-10 will return to Earth.
The mission will mark the sixth flight for the Endeavour capsule, solidifying its legacy as SpaceX’s most flown crew vehicle to date. Notably, Endeavour carried astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS during the groundbreaking Demo-2 mission in 2020 — the first crewed flight by SpaceX and the first from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle era.
While Crew-11 is the 11th mission to the ISS under NASA's commercial partnership with SpaceX, the company’s human spaceflight record extends beyond government contracts. SpaceX has flown:
- Demo-2, its inaugural crewed test mission
- Four private missions to the ISS for Houston-based Axiom Space
- Two private orbital missions — Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn, both led and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman
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