The launch is scheduled for July 31 at 12:09 p.m. EST from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A, barring any last-minute delays due to the weather or other factors. Crew-11 will send US astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke and Kimiya Yui up to space, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.

As the ISS passed above the city-state of Singapore at 3:18 a.m. local time on June 15, the crew witnessed an electrifying storm with flashes of lightning across the landscape. The flash, which appears almost spherical in the image, is due to lightning striking the clouds above the urban area, according to NASA.

An international crew is readying for Thursday's planned launch of a NASA mission to the International Space Station after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.