NASA's Space to Ground: On the Station, On the Moon: Week of March 7, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground: On the Station, On the Moon: Week of March 7, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 72 crew will change commanders on Friday, March 7, 2025, as four crewmates prepare for their return to Earth. NASA astronaut and station Commander Suni Williams will hand over leadership of the orbital outpost to Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Russia. Williams will return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wilmore and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov ending the SpaceX Crew-9 mission. 

The homebound quartet will leave the space station a few days after the SpaceX Crew-10 mission launches next week. Ovchinin will stay aboard the station with Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos until mid-April.

The SpaceX Crew-10 mission is targeted to launch aboard the Dragon crew spacecraft at 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will command and pilot the Crew-10 mission with Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia) serving as Mission Specialists. Crew-10 is targeted to dock to the Harmony module’s forward port at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 13.

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 3 minutes, 36 seconds
Release Date: March 7, 2025

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