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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 .
Red Dragon was a cancelled version of the Dragon spacecraft that had been previously proposed to fly farther than Earth orbit and transit to Mars via interplanetary space. In addition to SpaceX's own privately funded plans for an eventual Mars mission, NASA Ames Research Center had developed a concept called Red Dragon.
MV Shannon, formerly known as MV GO Navigator, 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 Megan, is designed to retrieve Crew and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov boarded the ISS shortly after the Dragon capsule docked at the station at 2130 GMT, NASA said in a post on X. The SpaceX Crew-9 ...
Crew Dragon Endeavour (serial number C206) is the first operational Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. The spacecraft is named after Space Shuttle Endeavour . It first launched on 30 May 2020 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission.
The automated capsule launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and took 27 hours to reach the space station. This was the second astronaut mission for Elon Musk's company. SpaceX Dragon Capsule ...
Crew Dragon C213 is the fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft. [1] It is planned to make its maiden flight in March 2025 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-10 mission. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As such, the astronauts assigned to the Crew-10 mission will have the honor of naming the capsule.
A Crew Dragon capsule — with its trunk section attached — is currently parked at the International Space Station. NASA said that spacecraft is expected to return to Earth with its crew later ...