PHOTO OF THE DAY: Richard Gallagher Captures Crew-11 SpaceX Rocket from Titusville Against Stunning Sunrise!

Cumulus clouds scrub launch of Crew-11 mission to the Space Station

Epic morning vibes as the Crew-11 SpaceX rocket stands tall against a stunning sunrise! Photographer Richard Gallagher of RPG Photography captured this image at 6:45 am from the New York New York Tiki Bar in Titusville of the SpaceX Falcon rocket carrying Crew 11 to the ISS.

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — SpaceX scrubbed Thursday’s launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission just over a minute before liftoff, due to a bank of cumulus clouds that appeared over the skies over Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island.

The next launch opportunity is Friday, Aug. 1, at 11:43 a.m. EDT, NASA officials said. There’s another chance on Saturday, Aug. 2, at 11:21 a.m. EDT.

Crew-11 will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at KSC with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Oleg Platonov of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos.

This Crew-11 mission will be the sixth flight for the Crew Dragon Endeavour, which first flew on the Demo-2 mission in May 2020. NASA and SpaceX conducted thorough reviews of the various subsystems on the vehicle, as this marks its sixth flight.

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