NASA International Space Station officials required a seat barter agreement between NASA and Roscosmos to be finalized by late June in order to have Anna Kikina fly on the Crew-5 Crew Dragon mission in early September and an American astronaut, likely Frank Rubio, fly on the Soyuz MS-22 mission launching later in September.
NASA intends to purchase five additional Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station from SpaceX via a sole-source modification to its existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract.
SpaceX is developing a Crew Dragon-derived pressure suit for use in spacewalks as part of the Polaris Program funded by Jared Isaacman.
SpaceX plans to test its Crew Dragon-derived spacewalk-capable suit on the Polaris Dawn mission scheduled for later 2022.
NASA announced in October 2021 that Nicole Mann would fly on the Crew-5 Crew Dragon mission scheduled for launch in September.
SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour on 2022-04-08 for the commercial Ax-1 mission for Axiom Space.
Less than 39 hours after Endeavour’s 2022-04-25 splashdown, the Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on the Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station.
Ax-1 was a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station that used a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The booster used on the 2022-04-29 launch was last used three weeks earlier on the launch of a Crew Dragon on the Ax-1 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on 2022-04-27.
Weather complications forced the return of the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour on the Ax-1 mission earlier 2022-04 to be delayed, requiring the four private astronauts to spend an extra week on the space station, nearly twice as long as originally planned.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom docked with the International Space Station at 7:37 p.m. Eastern on 2022-04-27.
The Crew-5 mission is set to use the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance and is scheduled to launch in September.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour undocked from the ISS on 2022-04-24 and splashed down off the Florida coast on 2022-04-25.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom launched four American and European astronauts to the International Space Station on 2022-04-27.
All four main parachutes on the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour opened at the same time during the 2022-04-25 reentry.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station 16 hours before its 2022-04-25 splashdown.
The Crew-4 mission is scheduled to launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom on 2022-04-27 at 3:52 a.m. Eastern.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth on 2022-04-25 after a 17-day mission that ferried four private astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on 2022-04-24.