Crew Dragon Endurance
- 11 November 2021 – 6 May 2022
- SpaceX Crew-3
- 26 August 2023 – 12 March 2024
- SpaceX Crew-7
Crew Dragon Endurance (Dragon C210) is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX, built and operated under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. On 11 November 2021, it was launched to transport personnel to the International Space Station as part of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission, which became a part of ISS Expedition 66.
History
On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 will be called Endurance.[1] Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica[2] and was found during the Crew-3 mission.[3]
Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Flights
Flight No | Mission | Patch | Launch date (UTC) | Landing date (UTC) | Crew | Duration | Remarks | Outcome |
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1 | Crew-3 | ![]() | 11 November 2021, 02:03:31[4] | 6 May 2022, 04:43 | 176 days | Long duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
2 | Crew-5 | ![]() | 5 October 2022, 16:00:57[5] | 12 March 2023, 02:02[6] | 157 days | Long duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 68 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
3 | Crew‑7 | ![]() | 26 August 2023, 07:27:27[7] | 12 March 2024, 09:47 | 199 days | Long duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 69/70 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
4 | Fram2 | (patch) | Q4 2024 | Q4 2024 |
| 3-5 days | Private mission, first crewed mission to Polar Orbit. | Planned |
Gallery
- Crew Dragon Endurance Gallery
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- Endurance splashdown to the Atlantic Ocean after the end of the Crew-3 mission
References
- ^ "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic". BBC News. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ Sempsrott, Danielle (30 October 2021). "NASA, SpaceX Adjust Next Space Station Crew Rotation Launch Date". NASA. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Headline: NASA, SpaceX Provide Crew-5 Hardware Operations Status". NASA. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "Coverage Set as NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Prepares to Splashdown - NASA".
- ^ "Falcon 9 Block 5 - SpaceX Crew-7". Next Spaceflight. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
External links
Media related to Crew Dragon Endurance at Wikimedia Commons
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