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With Crew-11 set to depart shortly, command of the ISS will fall to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. He'll remain on the station with fellow Soyuz travellers, NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev. They will be the only crew aboard the station until SpaceX Crew-12 launches in February.
On Aug. 1, 2025, the SpaceX Crew-11 astronaut mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), which sits in low Earth orbit (LEO) at around 260 miles (418 kilometers) above our planet.
A mission to the International Space Station may end early due to a medical situation involving one of the astronauts aboard the station. NASA announced that it was postponing Thursday's spacewalk because "the agency is monitoring a medical concern with a crew member that arose Wednesday afternoon aboard the orbital complex."