WEBDESK: NASA’s Crew-10 mission is now expected to launch on Friday, March 14, 2025, following a delay earlier this week due to technical reasons.
A last-minute technical issue with the launchpad forced SpaceX to postpone its Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, delaying the long-awaited return of two astronauts stranded in orbit for nine months.
The Crew-10 mission will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew includes Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers from NASA, Takuya Onishi from Japan’s JAXA, and Kirill Peskov from Russia’s Roscosmos. This will be McClain’s second spaceflight and the first for Ayers and Peskov.
The key objective of this mission is to return two NASA astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams who have been stranded on the ISS for the past 9 months.
Initially scheduled for a 8-day mission, an issue with their spacecraft prompted them to stay beyond that timeline. They are expected to return soon after the Crew-10 mission arrives on the ISS.
The spacecraft being used for this mission is the SpaceX dragon capsule, “Endurance.” This capsule has flown before on previous missions. It’s being used this time around to speed up the process of bringing back the two astronauts alongside the crew-10 mission.
The Crew-10 mission will launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch will take place at 7:03 PM EDT on Friday, March 14, 2025, which is 4:03 AM on Saturday, March 15, 2025, Pakistan Time (PKT).
