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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 Crew Dragon Demo-2 test flight launched with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from Launch Complex 39A on 30 May 2020, and docked to pressurised mating adapter PMA-2 on the Harmony module of the ISS on 31 May 2020. [48] [49] [50] The first operational Commercial Crew mission Crew-1 was launched on November 15, 2020. [51]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Crew Dragon Demo-1: Crew Dragon C204: Uncrewed test flight. Demo-1 launched on March 2, 2019, and docked to ISS PMA-2/IDA-2 docking port a little under 24 hours after launch. The Dragon spent five days docked to ISS before undocking and landing on March 8, 2019. [92] — 2019-03-02 Success Boeing Pad Abort Test: Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 1
[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 ...