NASA Crew-10 Astronauts Depart Space Station After Five-Month Mission (reuters.com)
(Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
from the homeward-bound dept.)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/2323252/nasa-crew-10-astronauts-depart-space-station-after-five-month-mission
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-crew-10-astronauts-depart-space-station-after-five-month-mission-2025-08-08/
NASA's Crew-10 mission has [1]departed the International Space Station after 146 days , with astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov set to splash down off California's coast on Saturday morning. You can watch a recording of the SpaceX Crew-10 undocking and departure [2]on X . Reuters reports:
> The four-person crew launched to the ISS on March 14 in a routine mission that replaced the Crew-9 crew, which included NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronaut pair left on the station by Boeing's Starliner capsule. Five months after the Starliner mission's conclusion, Wilmore this week retired from NASA after a 25-year career in which he flew four different spacecraft and logged a total of 464 days in space. Wilmore was a key technical adviser to Boeing's Starliner program along with Williams, who remains at the agency in its astronaut corps. [...] NASA said they are returning to Earth with "important and time-sensitive research" conducted in the microgravity environment of the ISS during the 146-day mission. The astronauts had over 200 science experiments on their to-do list.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-crew-10-astronauts-depart-space-station-after-five-month-mission-2025-08-08/
[2] https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1953935434528002165
> The four-person crew launched to the ISS on March 14 in a routine mission that replaced the Crew-9 crew, which included NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronaut pair left on the station by Boeing's Starliner capsule. Five months after the Starliner mission's conclusion, Wilmore this week retired from NASA after a 25-year career in which he flew four different spacecraft and logged a total of 464 days in space. Wilmore was a key technical adviser to Boeing's Starliner program along with Williams, who remains at the agency in its astronaut corps. [...] NASA said they are returning to Earth with "important and time-sensitive research" conducted in the microgravity environment of the ISS during the 146-day mission. The astronauts had over 200 science experiments on their to-do list.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/science/nasa-crew-10-astronauts-depart-space-station-after-five-month-mission-2025-08-08/
[2] https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1953935434528002165