Announcement of the launch of the "Crew-10" spacecraft

14 March 2025 year Fr. 23:03 (UTC) from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA using a launch vehicle «Falcon 9 Block 5» the US manned space vehicle was launched «Crew-10».

«Crew-10» is the tenth operational rotation mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The crew will consist of NASA astronaut commander Ann McClain and pilot Nicole Ayers, as well as mission specialists Takuya Onishi from Japan's JAXA and Kirill Peskov from Russia's Roscosmos. The main goal of the astronauts will be to facilitate the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, NASA astronauts, who were on the ISS 9 months.

In July 2022 In 2018, as part of the ISS program, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts on American Crew Dragon ships and American astronauts on Russian Soyuz MS ships. The implementation of the agreement allows for the cancellation or significant delay of the launch of a Russian or American ship to ensure the presence on board the ISS of at least one Roskosmos cosmonaut and one NASA astronaut for maintenance, in accordance, Russian and American segments of the station.

The US space agency has canceled the launch of the Crew-10 mission 12.03.2025 to the International Space Station due to a malfunction in the hydraulic system of the support arm of the Falcon rocket 9. NASA and SpaceX decided to replace the Crew Dragon spacecraft, To avoid further delay in startup. Instead of a new ship, a reusable Crew Dragon Endurance was used, which previously performed Crew-3 missions, Crew-5 і Crew-7.

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