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SpaceX Crew-2 used the same capsule as Crew Dragon Demo-2 and launched on the same Falcon 9 booster as SpaceX Crew-1 (B1061.1). With its return to Earth the evening of 9 November 2021, the mission set a record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. crewed spacecraft, 199 days.
Williams and Wilmore, meanwhile, are assigned to return home aboard SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. NASA and SpaceX even had to reconfigure the Crew-9 capsule and astronaut assignments before the ...
The Starliner returned to Earth Sept. 7 without its crew on board because of safety concerns. The Crew 9 Dragon then was launched Sept. 28 with just two passengers, Hague and Gorbunov. That freed ...
Crew-8 was the eighth SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. [8] The mission launched at 3:53:38 UTC on 4 March 2024 (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST, local time at the launch site). [9] SpaceX sent the 50th astronaut on this Crew Dragon launch.
Four astronauts have returned to Earth with Elon Musk's SpaceX after issues with Boeing's Starliner delayed their mission. SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 3:29 a ...
SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 15th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Originally scheduled to launch a crew of four to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-August 2024, the mission was delayed by more than a month due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner Calypso spacecraft that was docked at the ISS for the ...
SpaceX, which aims to dramatically lower space transportation costs, designed Dragon 2 to be reused, not discarded as is typical of spacecraft. It is composed of a reusable capsule and a disposable trunk. SpaceX and NASA initially certified the capsule to be used for five missions.
October 25, 2024 at 2:57 PM. The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew 8 returned to Earth Friday morning, following an eight-month stay at the International Space Station that was extended by ...