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The Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission was initially planned for launch in July 2019 as part of the Commercial Crew Program contract with a crew of two on a 14-day test mission to the ISS. [ 30 ] [ 20 ] The Crew Dragon capsule from the Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission was destroyed while its SuperDraco thrusters were undergoing static fire testing on 20 ...
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. [10]
The first orbital test of Crew Dragon was an uncrewed mission, commonly called "Demo-1" and launched on 2 March 2019. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] The spacecraft tested the approach and automated docking procedures with the ISS, [ 86 ] remained docked until 8 March 2019, then conducted the full re-entry, splashdown and recovery steps to qualify for a crewed ...
It first launched on 30 May 2020 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. It has subsequently been used for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission that launched in April 2021, the private Axiom Mission 1 that launched in April 2022, the SpaceX Crew-6 mission that launched in March 2023, and the SpaceX Crew-8 mission from ...
The historic, privately financed space flight will carry humans above Earth's ice caps for the first time.
SpaceX Crew-1 [6] [7] (was also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1) [8] was the first operational [b] crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011.
[67] [68] The uncrewed SpaceX Demo-1 mission was launched on 2 March 2019, [69] in which a Crew Dragon successfully docked with the ISS and returned to Earth six days after launch. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] The capsule used in the mission, however, was accidentally destroyed in a static fire test of its SuperDraco engines in April 2019, [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ...
SpaceX Crew-2 was the second operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission was launched on 23 April 2021 at 09:49:02 UTC, and docked to the International Space Station on 24 April at 09:08 UTC. [2] SpaceX Crew-2 used the same capsule as Crew Dragon Demo-2 ...