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Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American private space transportation company SpaceX. The first variant, later named Dragon 1 , flew 23 cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) between 2010 and 2020 before retiring.
The spacecraft, which consists of a reusable space capsule and an expendable trunk module, has two variants: the 4-person Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon, a replacement for the Dragon 1 cargo capsule. The spacecraft launches atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, and the capsule returns to Earth through splashdown .
Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's faring recovery vessels and Elon Musk's private jet), this vessel, along with its sister ship, MV Megan, is designed to retrieve Crew and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown. When a Dragon capsule is preparing to return to Earth, Shannon or Megan are dispatched to wait near ...
When billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis exited their SpaceX Dragon capsule, ... 7:00 a.m. Isaacman moves back inside to make way for Gillis to exit using the ...
The automated capsule launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and took 27 hours to reach the space station. This was the second astronaut mission for Elon Musk's company. SpaceX Dragon Capsule ...
SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring. The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late Monday night ...
MV Megan, formerly known as MV GO Searcher, is one of SpaceX's two Dragon capsule recovery vessels. Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's faring recovery vessels and Elon Musk's private jet), this vessel, along with its sister ship, MV Shannon, are converted platform supply vessels now equipped to retrieve Crew and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown.
A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth's poles aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule by the end of the year, becoming the ...