The American company SpaceX launched the crewed spacecraft Crew Dragon from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, using a Falcon 9 rocket. Four participants were sent on the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, American astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. Under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has been transporting crews to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft since 2020. On February 7, 2025, Roscosmos announced the addition of cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the Crew Dragon team as a specialist for the Crew-11 operational mission to the International Space Station.
