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Dragon 1 C112 approaching the ISS. 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.
CRS-13, SpaceX's thirteenth CRS mission, was the second use of a previously flown Dragon capsule, but the first time in concordance with a reused first-stage booster. It was successfully launched on 15 December 2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 at the first attempt.
The first privately funded company to successfully launch (by Falcon 9), orbit and recover a spacecraft (Dragon) (9 December 2010) The first private company to send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the International Space Station (25 May 2012) The first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit (SES-8, 3 December 2013)
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.
SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis, a mission specialist on Polaris Dawn, ascends the hatch to exit the SpaceX Dragon during Thursday's spacewalk. The crew members are now the first private astronauts ...
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will do something different during its latest stay at the International Space Station, in a test setting up the company to ultimately destroy the orbiting laboratory ...
SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour as it approached the International Space Station. On 17 April 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the first crewed Crew Dragon Demo-2 to the International Space Station would launch on 27 May 2020. [104]
Polaris Dawn is the first of three human spaceflights under the Polaris Program, all of which are intended to test SpaceX technologies needed to carry humans deep into the cosmos.. On the day of ...