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SpaceX Crew-10 hatch opening

Mar 16, 2025

The hatch of SpaceX’s Crew-10 “Endurance” Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi (大西 卓哉), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov (Кирилл Песков), was opened on 16 March 2025, at 05:35 UTC (01:35 EDT). Crew-10 is SpaceX’s tenth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

 

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SpaceX Crew-10 docking

Mar 16, 2025

SpaceX’s Crew-10 “Endurance” Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi (大西 卓哉), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov (Кирилл Песков), autonomously docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, on 16 March 2025, at 04:04 UTC (00:04 EDT). Crew-10 is SpaceX’s tenth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The “Endurance” Crew Dragon previously supported NASA’s Crew-3, Crew-5, and Crew-7 missions.

 

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SpaceX Crew-9 hatch closure

Mar 18, 2025

The hatch of SpaceX’s Crew-9 “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Александр Горбунов), was closed on 18 March 2025, at 03:05 UTC (17 March, at 23:05 EDT). Crew-9 is SpaceX’s ninth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously undock and depart the International Space Station on 18 March 2025, at 05:05 UTC (01:05 EDT).

 

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SpaceX Crew-9 undocking and departure

Mar 18, 2025

The “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft autonomously undocked from the space-facing International Docking Adapter of the Harmony module, departing the International Space Station, on 18 March 2025, at 05:05 UTC (01:05 EDT). The “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Александр Горбунов), is scheduled to splashdown off the coast of Florida on 18 March 2025, at 21:57 UTC (17:57 EDT).

 

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SpaceX Crew-9 splashdown

Mar 19, 2025

The “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Florida, on 18 March 2025, at 21:57 UTC (17:57 EDT). Crew-9 is SpaceX’s ninth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft transporting NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Александр Горбунов) to and from the International Space Station.

 

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SpaceX Crew-9 recovery operations and astronauts egress

Mar 19, 2025

The crew of the “Freedom” Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Александр Горбунов), was successfully recovered after splashing down off the coast of Florida, on 18 March 2025, at 21:57 UTC (17:57 EDT).

 

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Fram2 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing

Apr 1, 2025

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft on the Fram2 mission to a polar orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 April 2025, at 01:46 UTC (31 March, at 21:46 EDT). Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1085) landed on the “A Shortfall of Gravitas” droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, having previously supported Crew-9, RRT-1, Blue Ghost M1 and 2 Starlink missions. Crew Dragon Resilience will orbit over Earth’s polar regions with Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips on board. Crew Dragon Resilience previously supported the Crew-1, Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions.

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Fram2 splashdown

Apr 4, 2025

The “Resilience” Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Oceanside, California, on 4 April 2025, at 16:19 UTC (09:19 PDT), returning Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips from the Fram2 mission that orbited the Earth’s polar regions. Crew Dragon Resilience previously supported the Crew-1, Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions.

 

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Fram2 recovery operations and astronauts egress

Apr 4, 2025

The crew of the “Resilience” Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Fram2 mission, with astronauts Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips, was successfully recovered after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Oceanside, California, on 4 April 2025, at 16:19 UTC (09:19 PDT).