SpaceX Launches Crew-10 to Relieve Astronauts at International Space Station

They are scheduled to dock with the orbiting laboratory around 11:30 p.m. on March 15.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launches from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 14, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.—Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into twilight skies above Florida’s east coast on March 14, sending NASA’s (National Aeronautic and Space Administration) Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for a four-month stay and the start of the 73rd long-duration liveaboard mission in nearly 25 years.

Onboard SpaceX’s Dragon “Endurance” are NASA astronaut and active-duty Army Colonel Anne McClain (Crew-10 commander), NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Major Nichole Ayers (pilot), JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi (mission specialist), and Russia’s Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov (mission specialist).