NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Preparing for 2025 Launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Preparing for 2025 Launch | International Space Station

Official crew portrait of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members:

 (from left) Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia); Pilot Nicole Ayers and Commander Anne McClain, both NASA astronauts; and Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Veteran NASA astronaut & spacewalker Anne McClain — Commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission 

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and Pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission

SpaceX Crew-10 members Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain

SpaceX Crew-10 members Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain

SpaceX Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain

SpaceX Crew-10 members Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain

The SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Emblem

Four crew members are preparing to launch for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts at the orbiting laboratory no earlier than February 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

Veteran Astronaut Anne McClain NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/anne-c-mcclain/

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/anne-c-mcclain/

Astronaut Nichole Ayers NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers/

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi Biography:

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/onishi-takuya/

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits: SpaceX/NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Bill Stafford/Helen Arase Vargas

Image Dates: Sept. 26-Nov. 27, 2024

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