By Ryan Cohick | rcohick@lonestarlive.com
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Friday evening for the launch of the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station after an issue forced the launch to be scrubbed Wednesday night.
The launch is now targeted for March 14 at 7:03 p.m. ET (6:03 p.m. CT, 11:30 p.m. GMT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Two astronauts, one JAXA astronaut and one cosmonaut will ride in SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which will ferry them to the orbiting laboratory for a six-month residency.
.@NASA and @SpaceX now target the launch of the #Crew10 mission for no earlier than 7:03pm ET on Friday, March 14, to the International Space Station. https://t.co/B9vkvcVbZ9
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) March 13, 2025
The launch was scrubbed Wednesday due to an issue with a ground support clamp arm that holds the Falcon 9 rocket in place, NASA Commercial Crew officials said in a post to X. Later that evening, they waved off a launch attempt Thursday due to a forecast that included high winds and precipitation in the flight path of Dragon.
On Thursday, SpaceX ground teams completed inspections of the ground support hydraulics system used for the clamp arm supporting the Falcon 9 rocket and successfully flushed a suspected pocket of trapped air in the system, NASA said in an update.