Meet the SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts launching to the ISS on March 12

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members, pictured from left to right: NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi.

The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission will head to the International Space Station (ISS) today (March 12), if all goes according to plan.

The four spaceflyers will catch a ride on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule "Endurance," which is set to launch today atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:48 p.m. EDT (2348 GMT).

As its name suggests, Crew-10 will be the 10th operational astronaut mission that SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA via the agency's Commercial Crew Program. Let's meet the Crew-10 quartet, who represent three different nations.

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Anne McClain (NASA)

NASA Expedition 59 astronaut Anne McClain of NASA floats in the cupola of the International Space Station in 2019, while holding gear for a scientific experiment. (Image credit: NASA)

Nichole 'Vapor' Ayers (NASA)

SpaceX Crew-10 pilot Nichole Ayers of NASA, seen here with an enlarged version of the mission's patch. (Image credit: SpaceX/NASA/collectSPACE.com)

Takuya Onishi (JAXA)

JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi on the International Space Station in 2016. (Image credit: NASA)

Kirill Peskov (Roscosmos)

SpaceX Crew-10 member Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos. (Image credit: NASA)

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Crew-10 is expected to arrive at the ISS on Thursday (March 13). The quartet will relieve the Crew-9 astronauts, who will head back to Earth a few days later.

Coming down on the Crew-9 Dragon "Freedom" will be NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, as well as cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Hague and Gorbunov flew up on Freedom in late September; Williams and Wilmore arrived at the ISS in June on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which was supposed to last just 10 days or so.

Starliner suffered problems with its thrusters, however, which extended the duo's orbital stay. NASA eventually decided to bring Starliner home uncrewed and put Williams and Wilmore on Crew-9, which launched with just two astronauts to accommodate the Starliner pair on the way home.