NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Dragon Spacecraft Docking | International Space Station
Expedition 72 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this timelapse view of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Dragon Spacecraft docking. Pettit commented: "Close Encounter but not of the third kind . . ." He is referencing the 1977 science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" directed by Steven Spielberg.
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, following a launch Friday, March 14, 2025, on the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Following docking, the quartet opened the hatch and floated onboard the orbital outpost before providing welcoming remarks as their mission aboard the space station began. The crew members will conduct a long-duration science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. Such research benefits people on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration through the agency’s Artemis missions, which will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.
Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: Suni Williams, 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/JSC/D. Pettit
Duration: 27 seconds
Release Date: March 16, 2025
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