NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10: Launch Preparations | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10: Launch Preparations | International Space Station

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission poses for a photo during a crew equipment interface test (CEIT) inside SpaceX’s new Dragon processing facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot and Anne McClain, commander; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, mission specialist, participated in the CEIT. It plays an important role in familiarizing crew members with the interior of the Dragon spacecraft ahead of their four-month mission to 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)

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 and cosmonauts at the orbiting laboratory by launching no earlier than March 12, 2025, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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/

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will be the first spaceflight for Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he earned a degree in engineering from the Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation School and was a co-pilot on the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft for airlines Nordwind and Ikar. Assigned as a test-cosmonaut in 2020, he has additional experience in skydiving, zero-gravity training, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.

Learn more about NASA's SpaceX Crew-10:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-10/

NASA's Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/commercial-crew-program/

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: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)/NASA

Release Dates: Nov. 27, 2024-Feb. 21, 2025

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