The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft and its four-person crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, March 16, NASA said.
Crew-10 consists of “NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov,” NASA said.
The number of crew aboard the space station will increase to 11 for a short time as Crew-10 joins NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, NASA said.
Following a brief handover period, Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov will return to Earth no earlier than Wednesday, March 19.
Williams and Wilmore were initially meant to spend just a few days on the space station, but their stint ended up lasting nine months after a spacecraft malfunction. Credit: NASA via Storyful
Video Transcript
Onishi, the first crew 10 astronaut through the hatch.
Followed by Peskov.
Nicole Ayres, the first of the flies.
Newest class of astronauts to enter and last commander of Crew 10 and McLean.