NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Arrives at Launch Complex 39A

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, just arrived at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Since the late 1960s, pads A and B at NASA Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 have supported America’s major space programs, with Pad A used most frequently for launches under the Space Shuttle Program. After the retirement of the shuttle in 2011, Pad A helped usher in a new era of human spaceflight as launch pad for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which returned human spaceflight capability to the United States. Pad B saw the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission in November 2022 and will continue to be the primary launch pad for America’s efforts to return to humans the Moon. 

Crew-10 members will hit the “space” button in the elevator that will take them 212 feet high to the pad’s launch tower to walk down the crew access arm into the White Room to make any last-minute phone calls and conduct final prelaunch operations before climbing into the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.