Editor’s Word: This launch was edited Aug. 9, 2025, to replace the Worldwide House Station docking port for the Crew-10 mission.
The primary crew to splash down within the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as a part of NASA’s Business Crew Program accomplished the company’s tenth industrial crew rotation mission to the Worldwide House Station on Saturday.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov returned to Earth at 11:33 a.m. EDT. Groups aboard SpaceX restoration vessels retrieved the spacecraft and its crew. After returning to shore, the crew will fly to NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston and reunite with their households.
“Splashdown! Crew-10 is again on Earth from the Worldwide House Station marking the completion of one other profitable flight,” stated NASA appearing Administrator Sean Duffy. “Our crew missions are the constructing blocks for long-duration, human exploration pushing the boundaries of what’s attainable. NASA is main the way in which by setting a daring imaginative and prescient for exploration the place we’ve got a thriving house trade supporting personal house stations in low Earth orbit, in addition to people exploring the Moon and Mars.”
The company’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off at 7:03 p.m. on March 14, from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida. About 29 hours later, the crew’s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the Concord module’s forward-facing port at 12:04 a.m. on March 16. Crew-10 undocked at 6:15 p.m. Aug. 8, to start the journey residence.
Throughout their mission, crew members traveled almost 62,795,205 million miles and accomplished 2,368 orbits round Earth. The Crew-10 mission was the primary spaceflight for Ayers and Peskov, and the second spaceflight for McClain and Onishi. McClain has logged 352 days in house over her two flights, and Onishi has logged 263 days in house throughout his flights.
Alongside the way in which, Crew-10 contributed tons of of hours to scientific analysis, upkeep actions, and expertise demonstrations. McClain, Ayers, and Onishi accomplished investigations on plant and microalgae development, examined how house radiation impacts DNA sequences in vegetation, noticed how microgravity adjustments human eye construction and cells within the physique, and extra. The analysis carried out aboard the orbiting laboratory advances scientific data and demonstrates new applied sciences that allow us to organize for human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
McClain and Ayers additionally accomplished a spacewalk on Could 1, relocating a communications antenna, starting the set up of a mounting bracket for a future Worldwide House Station Roll-Out Photo voltaic Array, and different duties. It was the third spacewalk for McClain, the primary for Ayers, and the 275th supporting house station meeting, upkeep, and upgrades.
Crew-10’s return to Earth follows the Crew-11 mission, which docked to the station on Aug. 2 for its long-duration science expedition.
NASA’s Business Crew Program gives dependable entry to house, maximizing the usage of the Worldwide House Station for analysis and improvement, and supporting future missions past low Earth orbit, resembling to the Moon and Mars, by partnering with personal U.S. firms, together with SpaceX, to move astronauts to and from the house station.
Study extra about NASA’s Business Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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