Crew-10 Arrives at the ISS
Crew-10 arrived at the International Space Station just after midnight March 16. Commander Anne McClain (NASA), pilot Nichole Ayers (NASA), and mission specialists Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos) soon entered the ISS and began their multi-month mission on the ISS. They are replacing Crew-9, which will come home in a few days.
Crew-10 lifted off at 7:03 pm ET yesterday and spent the next 28 hours on the way to the ISS. Soft dock at the forward port of the Harmony module took place at 12:04 am ET this morning.
After a series of leak checks and other procedures, they entered the ISS at 1:35 am ET, joining the seven members of Expedition 72 already there: Crew-9 (NASA’s Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos’s Aleksandr Gorbunov) and Soyuz MS-26 (Roscosmos’s Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and NASA’s Don Pettit). Crew-9 will return to Earth as early as this Wednesday. Soyuz MS-26’s replacements are scheduled to launch on April 8 and they’ll return on April 19. The ISS has been permanently occupied by international crews rotating on roughly six-month schedules for more than 24 years.
This article has been updated.
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