Crew Dragon C207

Crew Dragon C207 is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX and built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. It is scheduled to be flown on the Crew-1 mission no earlier than 30 August 2020, transporting four members of the Expedition 64 to the International Space Station. The mission will mark the first crewed operational flight of Crew Dragon and of the Commercial Crew Program.

Crew Dragon C207
C207 under construction at SpaceX's
headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Type Crew Dragon spacecraft
Manufacturer SpaceX
Construction number C207
First flight Crew-1
NET 30 August 2020
Status Under construction

History

Originally planned to fly the mission after Crew-1, Crew Dragon C207 was reassigned to fly Crew-1 after an anomaly during a static fire test destroyed capsule C201 intended to be re-flown on the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test.[1] The spacecraft intended to be used on C205 Demo-2 replaced the destroyed spacecraft in the abort test. With capsule C206, intended for use in Crew-1, being reasigned to Demo-2, the spacecraft was reassigned to Crew-1. Expected to launch no earlier than 30 August 2020, Crew-1 will be carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.[2] As of May 2020, SpaceX said that the spacecraft is in production.[3]

Flights
Mission Patch Launch date (UTC) Crew Duration Remarks Outcome
SpaceX Crew-1 NET 12 September 2020[4]
~210 days Long duration mission, will ferry the four members of the Expedition 64/65 crew to the ISS. Will mark the first operational flight of Crew Dragon and of the Commercial Crew Program. Planned

See also

References
  1. Gebhardt, Christ (29 May 2019). "NASA briefly updates status of Crew Dragon anomaly, SpaceX test schedule". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. Navin, Joseph (2 May 2020). "NASA, SpaceX enters the critical month of May on track to end the gap". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. @SpaceX (1 May 2020). "Once Demo-2 is complete, and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for certification, SpaceX will launch Crew Dragon's first six-month operational mission (Crew-1) later this year. The Crew-1 spacecraft is in production and astronaut training is well underway" (Tweet). Retrieved 11 June 2020 – via Twitter.
  4. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32006.1720
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