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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 ...
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 ...
A diagram showing the configuration of Crew Dragon Endeavor during the Demo-2 mission. Traditionally, spacecraft like Apollo and Soyuz have utilized solid-fueled "puller" launch escape systems, with the main spacecraft beneath a protective fairing attached to the escape system. Once in space, the escape system and the fairing are jettisoned ...
An improved version, the Dragon 2, was introduced in 2019 and has two versions: Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon. The first un-crewed flight test took place in March 2019, followed by a crewed flight test in May 2020. The Crew Dragon is one of the primary spacecraft ferrying crew members to and from the ISS and on private missions.
Behnken and Hurley left a Demo-2 patch on the inside of Endeavour after their mission. [28] SpaceX Crew-2 mission commander, astronaut Shane Kimbrough, announced that the crew would keep the Endeavour name for the spacecraft. [29] The seat Behnken used during his mission was later used by his wife, K. Megan McArthur on the Crew-2 flight. [30]
[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 ...
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]
On 31 May 2020, the expedition welcomed the crew of Crew Dragon Demo-2, the first crewed flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour after the eponymous Space Shuttle vehicle. The mission's two crew members Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken undocked from the International Space Station on 1 August 2020 [ 5 ] to help bolster research on ...