Spokesman-Review reporter Nick Gibson is in Florida this week to report on Anne McClain’s and NASA’s SpaceX launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Follow along in print and online at spokesman.com/sections/return-to-space.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched the Crew-10 mission from Florida on Saturday, March 15, to send four astronauts- Anne C. McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, Takuya Onishi of Japan, and Kirill Peskov of Russia to the International Space Station (ISS).

For astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, Friday's launch means they are closing in on their flight back to Earth after an unexpected nine months in orbit.