# @airmanmagazine on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTmLV3K8rb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34125791-airmanmagazine-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6eb6a0b5ee.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-03-17T15:54:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Airman Magazine (@airmanmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/airmanmagazine

## Caption

nasa astronaut and usairforce Maj. Nichole “Vapor” Ayers thanks those involved in the SpaceX Crew-10 mission as well as the crew’s family and friends seconds before piloting the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., March 14, 2025. The crew launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station at 7:03 p.m. EDT.

Ayers has flown missions across the globe, including more than 200 combat hours in Operation Inherent Resolve over Iraq and Syria and more than 1,400 flight hours in the T-38 Talon and F-22 Raptor. Previously stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Ayers served as the 3rd Wing, 90th Fighter Squadron assistant director of operations before receiving the call to join NASA in 2021. 

(U.S. Air Force video courtesy of NASA)
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military, nasa, airman, airforce, space, airmen, spacex, astronaut, falcon9, usaf

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