Editor’s Note: This blog was updated on February 12, 2025, adding target boot time.
NASA and SpaceX are accelerating the launch and return dates of upcoming crew rotation mission targets with the International Space Station. Currently, the agency’s Crew 10 launch is targeting the 7:48pm EDT on Wednesday, March 12th. The Crew 9 mission is planned to return to Earth after a few days of handover periods for the newly arrived crew 10 expedition.
Previous launch opportunities are available following mission management decisions to coordinate the agency’s original plan to fly a new dragon spacecraft for a crew 10 mission that requires additional processing time . The flight now uses a previously flew dragon called endurance, and the joint team is working to complete an evaluation of the previously flew hardware on the spacecraft, with the safety of the engine’s commercial crew program and We try to meet the certification requirements. The team completes dragon renovations and to SpaceX’s hangar at 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, propellant loads, and SpaceX’s hangar to SpaceX’s hangar to mate with the mission’s Falcon 9 rocket Working on preparing the spacecraft for flight, including transportation. This was the fourth mission to this Dragon station, previously supporting agency flights 3, 5, and 7.
“There are many unexpected challenges in human spaceflight. Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, said: “SpaceX’s commercial efforts and supporting Crew 10. It has benefited greatly from the aggressive approach of preparing another spaceship for evaluation and use to do so.”
This change also allows SpaceX, which owns and operates the Dragon Fleet, to complete the interior build of the new spaceship, and performs final integrated activities, while also launching Crew-10 and returning Crew 9 earlier. .
The Crew 10 mission will be carried by NASA astronaut Anne McLain and Commander. Nicole Ayers, pilot. Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut onishi and mission specialist. Los Cosmos astronaut Kiril Peskov, mission specialist, space station.
After Crew 10 arrives at the space station, Crew 9 helps the newly arrived crew become familiar with ongoing science and station maintenance work. Following the handover, NASA and SpaceX are pending Los Cosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov at Los Cosmos Cosmos Cosmon Alexandr Gorbunov, where weather conditions are pending at the splashdown site off the coast of Florida In addition to the Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, we prepare to return to Earth NASA Astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore.
