🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches NASA's Crew 10 Mission

SpaceX Crew-10 is the tenth operational crewed rotation mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The crew will be composed of NASA astronauts commander Anne McClain and pilot Nichole Ayes, and mission specialists Takuya Onishi of Japan's JAXA and Kirill Peskov of Russia's Roscosmos. Nichole Ayers will become the first member of NASA’s 2021 astronaut class to launch to orbit.

Instantaneous launch window: March 14th at 7:03:48PM EDT (23:03:48 UTC)

Mission: F9 launch of Crew-10 to the International Space Station
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit, 51.6 degree inclination orbit
Booster: B1090-2; 87d 37min 48s turnaround
Booster history: O3b mPOWER Mission 4
Booster recovery: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Capsule: C210-4 (Endurance); 367d 13h 16min 48s turnaround
Capsule history: Crew-3, Crew-5, Crew-7.
Capsule recovery: Megan or Shannon off the coast of California
Rocket trajectory: Northeast hugging the east coast of the United States
Stubby nozzle: NO
Mission Commander: Anne McClain (United States) - 2nd spaceflight
Mission Pilot: Nichole Ayers (United States) - 1st spaceflight
Mission Specialist: Takuya Onishi (Japan) - 2nd spaceflight
Mission Specialist: Kirill Peskov (Russia) - 1st spaceflight
Stats:
· SpaceX's 31st launch of the year and the 5th launch of the month
· 93rd Falcon orbital launch since the last failure, F9's 445th orbital flight.
· SpaceX's 105th launch from LC-39A.
· 49th landing on LZ-1 out of 50 attempts
· 77th successful landing by a Falcon booster since the last failed one
· 50th orbital flight of a Dragon spacecraft and 16th human spaceflight by SpaceX
· This mission will bring up to 60 the total of people sent by SpaceX to orbit.

⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight's channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips, and other exclusive benefits. Your support helps us continue our 24/7 coverage. ⚡

LDAPAABJRG2UMCU3

[GwladYrHaf]

This was the best livestream coverage of this event. Thanks to everyone involved.

[susanne]

Wow! What a wonder of human ability. Where mankinds curiosity can lead to. I watched a while, but Here in Austria it is late in the night, so i have to see the launch in the Morning 😊.

[corrinastanley]

Good stream and Elysia did a great job, thanks NSF team.

[chefevielee]

Well what a lift off. I got to watch it from cocoa beach right outside of coconuts restaurant tonight. It was spectacular.

[devinrivers]

I’ve never seen a rocket actually land like that! Amazing 😮👍🏿

[Belikemike]

I was there!! I was so disappointed when it scrubbed on Wednesday and they didn’t reschedule it for Thursday. We were going back home Friday morning but I ended up taking a chance, staying another night, and I got to witness my first rocket launch 🚀

[hansschmidt]

It`s so good to see, that Men and women of the world works together to go to the space. All the best and lots of power for them. Greatings from the Baltic Sea nearby Wismar

[wowzee]

The words of the astronauts are ones we should all live by; the sciences hold hands across the world with no hierarchies and caste systems, just discovery as the goal.

[ForestFlooredOptical]

In case anyone wants to make any nice photos/sharable inspirational memes, I captioned the wonderful speech given by the commander:

This is crew 10 commander, Anne McClain, thank you to all of the teams from across the world who contributed to the launch today. Space flight is tough, but humans are tougher.

Days like today are made possible only when people choose to do the harder right instead of the easier wrongs, build relationships, choose cooperation, and believe in the inherent goodness of all people across the world.

To my family and friends, without you I wouldn't be here today. Explore boldly, live gracefully, go Crew-10!

[lucasegoupil_SO]

Always a sight! Never gets old! Great job SpaceX and go Dragon!

[davidallen]

THANK YOU FOLKS, THAT WAS 1 HELLO A RIDE, APPRECIATE YOU

[iandennis]

Thank you so much for the excellent coverage.

[PrizmaticaMaxima]

Believe in the inherent goodness of all humans ❤ Safe flight 🚀🥰

[justinwife]

Well done crew-10 I hope you guys get to the ISS safely God speed!

[SelenesCreationsByTheSea]

That return is just brilliant never get sick of watching that for sure

[pranititiwari]

Congratulations 🎉...another great achievement 🙏👍

[karenmiller-beals]

I am an Addison Disease Warrior! We need a cure! 💙

Elon Musk, all of your ideas bring Hope. I pray this is all real.

Writing to you from a Convalescent Hospital God bless you,
Karen Beals 🇺🇸

[jarettgd]

4:06:01 Liftoff of Crew-10
4:08:41 MECO, Separation and Boostback Burn
4:12:27 Entry Burn
4:13:28 Landing Burn
4:16:06 Dragon Separation
4:17:24 Crew Speeches

[legoseanland]

Glad it didn’t scrub, glad i waited until it didn’t to watch

[consuela-claire]

What was the panel that flew off after the second separation?