
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. As its name suggests, Crew-11 is the 11th contracted crewed mission that SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA, via the agency's Commercial Crew Program.