Bathed in a golden sunrise, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket assigned to the Crew-11 mission was poised for flight on July 31, 2025.

This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

The Axiom-4 mission took off for space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 25 after a series of delays since the initial launch date of May 29.