NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX continue to plan next year's missions to the International Space Station for the agency's Commercial Crew Program. While preparations for these flights still require significant effort, the agency expects a busy year of on-orbit activity and is planning time windows for mission teams to target targets pending operational readiness and station traffic.

Crew-10
NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission's destination is February 2025 at the earliest. The mission will include NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander, and Nichole Ayers, pilot, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) mission specialist, astronaut Takuya Onishi , and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will carry to the space station to conduct scientific research and technology demonstrations. This mission will be the second spaceflight for McClain and Onishi and the first for Ayers and Peskov.

Crew-9, which arrived aboard the space station on September 29 with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Grubonov, will join Crew-10 after a brief handover.

Crew-11
NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 will be the second crew rotation flight of 2025 and is scheduled to take place no earlier than July to meet the space station's needs, including accommodating resupply flights and other operations aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA will announce the four-person crew at a later date.

Next Starliner flight
The timing and configuration of Starliner's next flight will be determined once there is a better understanding of Boeing's path to system certification. This determination includes considerations for incorporating lessons learned from crew flight tests, approval of final certification products, and operational readiness.

Meanwhile, NASA is keeping options open on how best to achieve system certification, including time windows for a possible Starliner flight in 2025.

NASA will provide further information as it becomes available.

For more information about NASA's Commercial Crew Program missions to the orbiting laboratory, visit the Commercial Crew blog and the program's social media accounts via @commercial_crew on X and Commercial Crew on Facebook.