The mission, initially set for a March 14 launch, would have marked the return of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA had recently accelerated their return by two weeks following pressure from President Donald Trump, who urged the agency to expedite their homecoming.

SpaceX had to delay the launch of the Crew-10 Falcon 9 mission to the International Space Station because of a hydraulic failure in the transporter erector that wrangles the rocket into position for the launch.

When is launch day for NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts? A Wednesday, March 12, 2025, launch attempt ended in a scrub minutes before liftoff. A hydraulic ground issue at launch pad 39A sparked a scrub of Crew-10's Falcon 9,

NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with plans to launch the space agency's Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14 at 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT), the U.S. agency said in a blog post on Thursday.