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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
SpaceX Dragon. 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. Design of this version, not designed to carry astronauts, was funded by ...
Bob Behnken. Robert Louis Behnken (/ ˈbɛnkən /; [1] born July 28, 1970) is an American engineer, a former NASA astronaut, and former Chief of the Astronaut Office. Behnken holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and the rank of colonel in the U.S. Air Force, where he served before joining NASA in 2000. He flew aboard Space Shuttle missions ...
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.
Capacity. 20. Crew. 6. Notes. [1][2] 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 ...
[96] [97] The SpaceX In-Flight Abort Test was successfully conducted in January 2020, [98] [99] [100] setting the stage for the final, crewed test flight of Crew Dragon – SpaceX Demo-2 – which launched astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS in May 2020. [100] SpaceX launched its first operational flight, SpaceX Crew-1, on 16 ...
SpaceX Crew-1 →. Crew Dragon Demo-2 (officially Crew Demo-2, SpaceX Demo-2, or Demonstration Mission-2) [a] was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on 30 May 2020 [7][11][12] on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International ...
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: ...