SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docks at ISS Carrying Four Crew-10 Astronauts

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, as the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting laboratory at 12:04 a.m. EDT. At the time of docking, the ISS was approximately 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.

After Dragon connected to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module, the crew aboard both the spacecraft and the ISS began standard leak checks and pressurization procedures in preparation for the hatch opening, scheduled for around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday.

The Crew-10 astronauts will join the Expedition 72 team, which includes NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. This will temporarily bring the total number of crew members aboard the ISS to 11 until Crew-9 members—Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov—depart for Earth following the crew handover period.