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Crew-10 Members Enter Dragon for Departure Live on NASA+ [1]

['Mark A. Garcia']

Date: 2025-08-08

Crew-10 Members Enter Dragon for Departure Live on NASA+

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov pose for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that will return them back to Earth. NASA

NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more ahead of hatch closure and undocking preparations for the return of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Roscosmos Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, will close the hatch at approximately 4:20 p.m. EDT Friday between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station.

NASA will provide live undocking coverage at 5:45 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. The spacecraft will autonomously undock from the space station at 6:05 p.m. to begin the roughly 17-and-a-half-hour journey home.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting splashdown at approximately 11:33 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 9, off the coast of California. NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and splashdown beginning at 10:15 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. The Crew-10 mission will be the first crewed flight to splashdown off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the Crew-10 mission will return important and time-sensitive research to Earth after completing a long-duration science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov launched on March 14, and docked to the space station on March 16. This was the second mission to the orbiting laboratory for McClain and Onishi, and the first for Ayers and Peskov. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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