That shouldn't cause any delays in the preparations to rollout and launch the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2 — the first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday (Jan. 8).
"These would be totally separate campaigns at this point," Isaacman said during a Jan. 8 press conference to provide an update on NASA's decision to end Crew-11 early. "There's no reason to believe at this point in time that there'd be any overlap that we have to deconflict for."
His reassurance of Artemis 2's timeline, which is slated to roll to the launchpad for a liftoff no earlier than Feb. 5, comes amid NASA's decision to cut short an ISS crew rotation due to medical concerns for the first time ever.
On Wednesday (Jan. 7), NASA officials announced they had decided to cancel an upcoming spacewalk due to a medical issue with an undisclosed crew member. Hours later, the agency indicated that it wasn't ruling out an early end to Crew-11's mission, and confirmed that the unnamed crew member was in a stable, non-emergency condition. NASA officials f
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos launched to the ISS atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 1, 2025. Ferried to the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour, the Crew-11 astronauts were expected to carry out a six-month stint before replacement astronauts on SpaceX's upcoming Crew-12 mission rotated in.
Source: www.space.com
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