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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 .
The four currently active space station cargo vehicles. Clockwise from top left: Progress, Cargo Dragon 2, Cygnus, Tianzhou. A number of different spacecraft have been used to carry cargo to and from space stations .
The SpaceX Dragon vehicle that will bring home the Starliner astronauts in February launched Saturday from Florida for the Crew-9 mission.
A sonic boom reportedly followed the landing of the Cargo Dragon spacecraft, which marked SpaceX's 23rd commercial resupply mission to the ISS.
In March 2020, NASA announced SpaceX as the first GLS contractor, [14] [15] [16] with the company simultaneously unveiling the Dragon XL spacecraft to be used in their flights to the Gateway. [15] [17] The spacecraft is capable of carrying 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds) of pressurized and unpressurized cargo in total to the Gateway. [15] [16] [18]
On February 22, 2023, NASA discussed the Dragon XL's development for the first time since its 2020 unveiling, with Mark Wiese, NASA's manager of deep space logistics for the Gateway program, answering during a panel at SpaceCom that NASA has been working with SpaceX to run a series of studies to refine the Dragon XL design and examine cargo ...
Crew Dragon Endurance (serial number C210) is the third operational SpaceX Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. It first launched on 11 November 2021 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. It has subsequently been used for the Crew-5 mission launched in October 2022 and the Crew-7 ...