Cardman, who leads a crew of astronauts to the station on Thursday, was bumped from a similar mission last year.

SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled for liftoff Thursday, carrying a crew to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Zena ...

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Every mission to space is a milestone. But for the astronauts of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11, their time at the International Space ...

Two-time UNC-Chapel Hill alumna Zena Cardman is one of four astronauts set for launch to the International Space Station on ...

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Zena Cardman, a two-time UNC Chapel Hill alumna, is making strides towards the stars as she joins NASA's Crew-11 launch to ...

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Cardman has earned numerous awards and honors, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2017), Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship s (2015-2016), Royster Society ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission, trains for her mission at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, ahead of her flight to the International Space Station.

Zena Cardman suits up for neutral buoyancy training. It's called the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, a little bit outside of Johnson Space Center.