NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Training for International Space Station Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Training for International Space Station Mission

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 is targeted to launch at 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will carry four people to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov trained for their mission across the world, including NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, SpaceX facilities in Hawthorne, California, and international training locations. Once aboard the space station, the crew will become Expedition 72/73 flight engineers, spending their time conducting science experiments, doing technology demonstrations in microgravity, maintaining the space station, and the having the ability to conduct spacewalks.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, are spending their final two weeks before launch in isolation to prevent exposure to any illnesses before they meet with existing crew members aboard the space station.  

Crew-10 will arrive at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2025, where they will remain in quarantine at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building as they complete final launch preparations.  

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the 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.

Veteran Astronaut Anne McClain NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/anne-c-mcclain/

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/anne-c-mcclain/

Astronaut Nichole Ayers NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers/

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi Biography:

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/onishi-takuya/

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will be the first spaceflight for Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he earned a degree in engineering from the Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation School and was a co-pilot on the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft for airlines Nordwind and Ikar. Assigned as a test-cosmonaut in 2020, he has additional experience in skydiving, zero-gravity training, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.

Learn more about NASA's SpaceX Crew-10:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-10/

NASA's Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/commercial-crew-program/

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: 38 minutes
Release Date: March 4, 2025

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