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SpaceX CRS-31. SpaceX CRS-31, sometimes identified by NASA as CRS SpX-31, is an in-progress American cargo spacecraft flight to the International Space Station (ISS), which launched on 5 November 2024. The mission is operated by SpaceX under a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The spacecraft is a Cargo Dragon, serial number ...
With this mission, Dragon 2 fleet's 1,324 days in orbit surpassed the Space Shuttle. This was the 38th Dragon mission to ISS, surpassing the Shuttle's 37. [148] Success CRS-29: C211.2: 10 November 2023 22 December 2023 Success CRS-30: C209.4: 21 March 2024 30 April 2024 First Dragon 2 launch from SLC-40. Success CRS-31: C208.5: 5 November 2024 TBA
The mission would have been designed to return samples from Mars to Earth at a fraction of the cost of NASA's own sample-return mission, which was projected in 2015 to cost US$6 billion. [5] On 27 April 2016, SpaceX announced its plan to go ahead and launch a modified Dragon lander to Mars in 2018.
The Polaris Dawn crew were finally able to embark early Tuesday on the thrice-delayed spaceflight.. In the predawn hours, the SpaceX Dragon capsule perched atop a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5: ...
The Polaris Dawn crew boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule for a 5:23 a.m. liftoff Tuesday atop the Falcon 9. The orbital mission will last five days.
PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sep. 9, 2024 ...
As of 2023, SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 E (SLC-4E), Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), and Brownsville South Texas Launch Site (Starbase). Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged in the AMOS-6 accident in September 2016 and ...
November 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to find a new docking port for a SpaceX Dragon in order to make way for an uncrewed NASA vehicle on a resupply ...