Crew-9 & Crew-10 Dragon Spacecraft: Departure/Arrival | International Space Station

Crew-9 & Crew-10 Dragon Spacecraft: Departure/Arrival | International Space Station

The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft, with its nose cone open, is pictured shortly after undocking from the International Space Station's space-facing port on the Harmony module. Inside Dragon, were SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague with Misssion Specialists Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, all three from NASA, and Mission Specialist Aleksander Gorbunov from Roscosmos (Russia).

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew spacecraft approaches the International Space Station carrying Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia), all four representing NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew spacecraft approaches the International Space Station.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew spacecraft approaches the International Space Station.

At 1:05 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, 2025, Crew-9, consisting of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, undocked from the space-facing port of International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 12:04 a.m. EDT on March 16 , 2025 in their Dragon spacecraft.

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 Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Dates: March 16 & 18, 2025

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