Engineering:Crew Dragon C207

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

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 in September 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.

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 in September 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][3] As of May 2020, SpaceX said that the spacecraft is in production.[4]

Flights

Mission Patch Launch date (UTC) Crew Duration Remarks Outcome
SpaceX Crew-1 75px NET September 2020[3]
  • United States Michael Hopkins
  • United States Victor Glover
  • Japan Soichi Noguchi
  • United States Shannon Walker
~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

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