JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi waves from the convoy carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to nearby Launch Complex 39A ahead of launch on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket at 7:48 p.m. EDT. Crew-10 is the 10th crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Photographer NASA/Cory S Huston
Date March 12, 2025