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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 ...
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 .
When the mission launched Tuesday, the SpaceX Dragon capsule bearing the astronauts traveled further into space than any spacecraft has gone in more than 50 years since NASA's Apollo era.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down at 3:37 a.m. Sunday off the Florida coast, bringing to an end a historic commercial spaceflight known as the Polaris Dawn mission.
An unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station as part of its demonstration mission. SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with space station [Video] Skip to ...
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.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, brought NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, ... landing softly at sea around 3:30 a.m. ET off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.