NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission to Launch Tonight
- NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission launches tonight at 7:49PM ET
- The mission will carry astronauts to the ISS and bring home stranded astronauts
- The Crew-10 crew includes Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov
- The mission will spend several months aboard the ISS conducting experiments and research
- NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth on the Crew-9 capsule
NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission is scheduled to launch at 7:49PM ET tonight from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The Dragon spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at around 6:00AM ET on March 13th.
The mission includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, as well as JAXA mission specialist Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. They will spend several months aboard the ISS conducting experiments, research, and performing spacewalks.
The Crew-10 mission will also provide a safe ride home for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. Their Boeing Starliner mission was supposed to be an eight-day mission, but issues with thruster failures and helium leaks made it unsafe to return to Earth using Starliner.
Wilmore and Williams will return to Earth on the Crew-9 capsule, tentatively scheduled for March 16th, 2025, along with two astronauts from the mission that launched to the ISS on September 28th, 2024.
Launch Details
The launch will be streamed live on NASA's website, and viewers can follow along for updates on the Crew-10 launch and the return flight of Wilmore and Williams.