NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Extra Images & Outtakes | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Extra Images & Outtakes | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members enter their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ahead of launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy on Friday, March 14, 2025. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot and Anne McClain, commander; and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, mission specialist.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers walk through the crew access arm connecting the launch tower to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ahead NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launch on Friday, March 14, 2025.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia walk through the crew access arm connecting the launch tower to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ahead NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launch on Friday, March 14, 2025.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers gesture to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers speaks to family and friends as her and fellow crewmates depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers speak with family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, lifted off successfully from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025. The Crew-10 Dragon spacecraft 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.

The flight was the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the International Space 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.

The number of crew aboard the space station will increase to 11 for a short time as Crew-10 joins NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. Following a brief handover period, Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov will return to Earth no earlier than Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Ahead of Crew-9’s departure from station, mission teams will review weather conditions at the splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.

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: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/SpaceX
Capture Dates: March 12 & 14, 2025

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