Thursday, March 134:15 a.m. | Coverage of the rendezvous, docking, hatch opening and welcoming remarks of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 aboard the International Space Station. Docking is scheduled for 6 a.m. Hatch opening is scheduled for 7:45 a.m. Welcoming remarks are scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Stream on NASA+
Friday, March 217:15 a.m. | Coverage of Northrop Grumman’s NG-21 Cygnus spacecraft release from the International Space Station. Release scheduled for 7:35 a.m. Stream on NASA+
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, March 12 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 10th operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for 7:48 p.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Thursday, March 13 at 7:26 p.m. ET.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1900011858641158310QuoteCrew-10 moved to a Friday NET (No Earlier Than).https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-10QuoteSpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Friday, March 14 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 10th operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for 7:03 p.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Saturday, March 15 at 6:41 p.m. ET.
Crew-10 moved to a Friday NET (No Earlier Than).
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Friday, March 14 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 10th operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for 7:03 p.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Saturday, March 15 at 6:41 p.m. ET.
Friday, March 143 p.m. | Launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 7:03 p.m. Stream on NASA+8:30 p.m. | Post-launch news conference on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission. Stream on NASA+Saturday, March 159:45 p.m. | Coverage of the rendezvous and docking of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 at the International Space Station. Docking is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. Stream on NASA+
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialF9/Crew 10: LIFTOFF! At 7:03:48pm EDT (1103 UTC)
International Space Station @Space_Station.@SpaceX #Crew10 arrives and docks to the space station at 12:04am ET Sunday. The @Commercial_Crew quartet will enter the orbital outpost soon and join the Exp 72 crew.
Monday, March 177 a.m. | ISS Expedition 72 in-flight event for the New Space & Solutions Conference in Seville, Spain, with NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers. Stream on NASA+10:45 p.m. | Hatch closing coverage for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station. Hatch closing is scheduled at 11:15 p.m. Stream on NASA+Tuesday, March 1812:45 a.m. | Undocking coverage for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station. Undocking is scheduled at 1:05 a.m. Stream on NASA+2 p.m. | NASA and Firefly news conference about the Blue Ghost Moon Mission. Stream on NASA+4:45 p.m. | Coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station. Deorbit burn is scheduled at approximately 5:11 p.m. and splashdown is scheduled at approximately 5:57 p.m. Stream on NASA+7:30 p.m. | Return-to-Earth media conference for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Stream on NASA+
https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1899124444225843231Quote from: Jeff FoustOne interesting note from a #satshow panel this morning: Erik Daehler of Sierra Space says the company is now targeting the end of summer for the first Dream Chaser mission.
One interesting note from a #satshow panel this morning: Erik Daehler of Sierra Space says the company is now targeting the end of summer for the first Dream Chaser mission.
HTV-X1 now scheduled for October 2025:QuoteAs a proud partner of MHI, we supplied the payload fairing and the payload support structure for the H3 HTV-X mission. After an exciting journey from our factory in Switzerland our fairing arrived safely in Japan - ready for its mission in October 2025. 🚀 #H3 #rocketsciencehttps://twitter.com/BeyondGravity_S/status/1899848327719420279
As a proud partner of MHI, we supplied the payload fairing and the payload support structure for the H3 HTV-X mission. After an exciting journey from our factory in Switzerland our fairing arrived safely in Japan - ready for its mission in October 2025. 🚀 #H3 #rocketscience
03/17/2025 19:09ISS orbit adjusted to prepare for April Soyuz crew changeoverToday, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted using the engines of the Progress MS-30 cargo ship to ensure the launch of the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-26, scheduled for April 2025.The engines were activated at 19:00 Moscow time and, according to preliminary data from the Mission Control Center, worked for 533 seconds, producing an impulse of 1 m/s.As a result, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 1.8 km and amounted to 417.9 km.The crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, which includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Alexander Gorbunov and Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, Sunita Williams, Anne McClain and Nicole Ayers, and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, is working on board the ISS.The launch of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with the crew of the 73rd long-term expedition, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim, is planned for April 8, 2025. Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald Pettit will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft.
SpaceX and NASA are targeting Tuesday, March 18 at 1:05 a.m. ET for Dragon to autonomously undock from the International Space Station. After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the space station, Dragon will conduct multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison the trunk, and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Florida approximately 17 hours later the same day.A live webcast of undocking will begin about 15 minutes prior to Dragon departing the International Space Station, and will resume one hour before splashdown. You can watch both webcasts here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app.Aboard the spacecraft will be Crew-9 NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Hague and Gorbunov flew to the space station on Dragon when Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, September 28.
At 1:05 a.m. EDT Tuesday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov undocked from the space-facing port of International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.NASA’s return coverage continues with real-time audio only, and full coverage will resume at the start of the splashdown broadcast. The audio feed will remain available, including astronaut conversations with mission control, in addition to a live video feed from the orbiting laboratory.NASA’s Crew-9 return coverage will resume at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday on NASA+ until Dragon splashes down at approximately 5:57 p.m. off the coast of Florida, and crew members are safely recovered. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
On March 2, the Progress MS-30 cargo spacecraft delivered almost 2.6 tons of cargo to the ISS, including a new Orlan-MKS No. 6 spacesuit for work in outer space. According to Pozdnyakov, two more new spacesuits will be delivered to the station this year, and Russian cosmonauts will go into outer space in them at the end of 2025.
STAR CITY /Moscow Region/, March 18. / TASS/. Two spacewalks are planned for the eight-month expedition of cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky. This was reported by crew commander Ryzhikov.Earlier, cosmonaut squad commander, Hero of the Russian Federation Oleg Kononenko reported that at least one spacewalk was planned for the mission.According to Ryzhikov, the program has since been adjusted. "We are planning to perform two spacewalks in October," he said at a pre-flight press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC, part of Roscosmos).The cosmonaut emphasized that by that time the second Orlan-MKS spacesuit from the new batch will arrive at the station - the first was delivered in early March. According to him, extravehicular activities will be carried out in them.
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialCrew 9: Deorbit ignition! At 5:11pm EDT (2111 UTC); this 450-second burn using the forward Draco thrusters is intended to slow the ship by about 119 mph, just enough to put the Crew Dragon on course for splashdown
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialCrew 9: Atmospheric entry expected at ~5:45pm EDT (2145 UTC); temperatures across the Crew Dragon's heat shield will quickly climb to more than 2,500 F before abating as the vehicle slows and the descent continues
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialCrew 9: Drogue chute deploy confirmed
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialCrew 9: Main parachute deploy confirmed
William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.socialCrew 9: SPLASHDOWN! AT 5:57pm EDT (2157 UTC)
