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The Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission was initially planned for launch in July 2019 as part of the Commercial Crew Program contract with a crew of two on a 14-day test mission to the ISS. [ 30 ] [ 20 ] The Crew Dragon capsule from the Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission was destroyed while its SuperDraco thrusters were undergoing static fire testing on 20 ...
Crew Dragon Demo-1 (officially Crew Demo-1, SpaceX Demo-1, or Demonstration Mission-1) [a] was the first orbital test of the Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission launched on 2 March 2019 [3] [4] at 07:49:03 UTC, and arrived at the International Space Station on 3 March 2019, a little over 24 hours after the launch.
After the change of plan, the test would have used the C204 capsule, which successfully flew Demo-1, however, C204 was destroyed in an explosion during a static fire test on 20 April 2019. [18] Capsule C205, originally planned for Demo-2, replaced C204 in the In-Flight Abort Test; C206 was subsequently used for Demo-2. [19]
SpaceX Crew-2 was the second operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program.The mission was launched on 23 April 2021 at 09:49:02 UTC, and docked to the International Space Station on 24 April at 09:08 UTC.
This mission was the first ocean-based recovery of an American crewed spacecraft since 1975, when the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission splashed down. [24] Also, this mission was the first crew recovery to occur in the Gulf of Mexico. [25] On the Demo-2 mission, Endeavour was in space for 63 days. The spacecraft was rated to spend 119 days in ...
The first COTS mission, COTS Demo Flight 1, was completed successfully on 8 December 2010, when the Dragon capsule was successfully recovered from orbit. Due to the mission's success, SpaceX asked NASA to combine the COTS 2 ISS flyby flight, which would have seen a Dragon spacecraft approach the station but stay about 10 km away from it, and ...
The eighth Mission: Impossible installment began filming in the U.K., Malta, South Africa and Norway in early 2022; production stalled in July 2023 due to the Hollywood writers and actors ...
Vast-1 is a planned private spaceflight to the Haven-1 space station, planned to launch no earlier than August 2025 by American aerospace company Vast. [2] Vast-1 is expected to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket, using a Crew Dragon vehicle, both manufactured by SpaceX.