NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

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 flight is 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 Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/SpaceX
Capture Date: March 14, 2025

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