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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.
In addition to flying astronauts to space for NASA, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft can also carry commercial astronauts to Earth orbit, the ISS or beyond.
3 Mei 2021 · Dragon Returns to Earth. After 167 days in space, the longest duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft since the final Skylab mission in 1974, Dragon and the Crew-1 astronauts, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi, returned to Earth on Sunday, May 2, 2021.
Designed from the beginning to transport people, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying both NASA and commercial astronauts to destinations in low-Earth orbit, the Moon and beyond.
14 Nov 2020 · Elon Musk's SpaceX has built the Crew Dragon primarily to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
28 Feb 2019 · SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft—designed to fly astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil—is ready for its debut flight on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. It is a first-of-its-kind test mission of a commercially-built and operated American spacecraft and rocket designed for humans.
15 Mac 2023 · Carrying more than 6,200 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was launched to the space station by a Falcon 9 rocket at 8:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
