SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 16th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission transported four crew members — NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov — to the International Space Station (ISS).[3] The mission launched on 14 March 2025 at 23:03:48 UTC from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

Crew

Prime crew
Position[4] Crew
Commander United States Anne McClain, NASA
Expedition 72/73
Second spaceflight
Pilot United States Nichole Ayers, NASA
Expedition 72/73
First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1 Japan Takuya Onishi, JAXA
Expedition 72/73
Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 Russia Kirill Peskov, Roscosmos
Expedition 72/73
First spaceflight
Backup crew
Position[5] Crew
Mission Specialist 2 Russia Oleg Platonov, Roscosmos

Mission

Attempt Planned Result Turnaround Reason Decision point Weather go (%) Notes
1 12 Mar 2025, 7:48:56 pm Scrubbed — Technical 12 Mar 2025, 7:04 pm ​(T−00:44:00) >95[6] Ground equipment hydraulic problem.
2 14 Mar 2025, 7:03:48 pm Success 1 day 23 hours 15 minutes >95[7]

The tenth SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program was initially scheduled for launch in February 2025.[8][9] This mission was to see the maiden flight of Crew Dragon C213, the fifth and potentially final Crew Dragon spacecraft.[10][11] The launch was ultimately postponed by one month to late March 2025 to allow SpaceX and NASA to complete final testing and integration of the new spacecraft.[12] However, because NASA believed that C213 would not be ready for its debut launch until late April, the mission was reassigned to Crew Dragon Endurance, allowing the launch date to be moved up to earlier in March.[13]

The launch attempt on 12 March 2025 was scrubbed about 44 minutes before the planned liftoff time due to a suspected pocket of air trapped in the hydraulics on one of the clamps on the strongback that restrains and stabilizes the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket while it stands vertically on the launch pad before launch.[14][15][16]

The mission is scheduled to end with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in late 2025, a first for a Crew Dragon mission. While SpaceX Dragon 1 missions had previously landed in the Pacific, SpaceX and NASA had shifted recovery operations to the Eastern U.S. in 2019. The move allowed astronauts and critical cargo to return to Kennedy Space Center more quickly after splashdown, and SpaceX opened a facility in Florida to take in capsules after flight and prepare them for the next mission. However, the move had an unforeseen consequence: the trunk module had to be jettisoned before reentry, and while the team expected it would burn up, SpaceX became aware of at least four cases of trunk debris being found on land. The shift back to Pacific Ocean splashdowns means that the trunk can stay attached longer and be directed towards a remote area of the ocean called Point Nemo (nicknamed the spacecraft cemetery), where any debris that survives reentry will be unlikely to cause damage.[17][18]

SpaceX Crew-10

References

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