NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Suit-Up and Walkout

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is all smiles during leak checks for his SpaceX spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the second launch attempt NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Fincke and fellow NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:45 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is all smiles during leak checks for his SpaceX spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the second launch attempt NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Fincke and fellow NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 11:45 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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