spacetoday.net: NASA to swap Crew Dragon capsules to reduce Crew-10 delays

Posted: Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 10:37 AM ET (1537 GMT)
NASA and SpaceX have agreed to swap Crew Dragon spacecraft to reduce the delay in the next mission to the International Space Station. NASA said Tuesday that the Crew-10 mission will use an existing Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, that had been scheduled to fly the Ax-4 private astronaut mission this spring, rather than a new Crew Dragon spacecraft. Delays in completing that new Crew Dragon had already pushed back the Crew-10 launch from February to late March with the risk of additional delays. The mission is now scheduled to launch no earlier than March 12, delivering astronauts from NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos to the station. That will allow the return shortly thereafter of the Crew-9 mission that will include NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who arrived on the station in June on the Starliner mission.