SpaceX is scheduled to fly its Crew Dragon Crew-2 mission no earlier than 2021-04-20.
Jared Isaacman purchased a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission slated for launch no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021.
SpaceX will use revenue from commercial Crew Dragon missions, including Inspiration4, to help fund development of the Starship vehicle.
The Inspiration4 mission will use the Crew Dragon spacecraft named Resilience that is currently docked to the International Space Station for NASA’s Crew-1 mission.
Crew-2 will replace the Crew-1 astronauts who flew to the station in November 2020 on the first operational Crew Dragon mission.
Falcon 9’s first-stage booster used on Transporter-1 previously supported launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission, the ANASIS-II mission, a Starlink mission, and Dragon’s 21st cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported seven other missions: the SXM-7 mission in December 2020, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission launch in June 2019, Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission in March 2019, and four Starlink missions.
SpaceX launched an additional Falcon 9 in 2020 for a suborbital in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster used on the SXM-7 mission previously supported Crew Dragon’s Demo-1 flight to the International Space Station.
SpaceX performed a suborbital Falcon 9 in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft for NASA in January 2020.
CRS-21 is the first mission under SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract using a version of the Crew Dragon spacecraft developed for the commercial crew program.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience docked with the International Space Station on 2020-11-16 at 11:01 p.m. Eastern.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience is scheduled to dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module about 11 p.m. on 2020-11-16.
NASA completed a flight readiness review on 2020-11-10 and formally certified the Crew Dragon spacecraft at the end of that review.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft named Resilience launched 2020-11-15 carrying four American and Japanese astronauts to the International Space Station.
A 2020-11-15 Crew-1 launch would have the Crew Dragon capsule docking with the International Space Station around 11 p.m. Eastern on 2020-11-16.
A one-day slip of the Crew-1 launch to 2020-11-15 would result in the Crew Dragon taking approximately 27.5 hours to dock with the International Space Station.
NASA previously delayed the Crew-1 launch from 2020-10-23 to 2020-10-31 to provide more time to complete certification work on the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Commercial Crew Dragon missions for non-NASA customers are not included in the seven NASA missions planned through 2021.
Crew-1’s Crew Dragon features an improved backshell that increases wind limits for reentry and raises the probability of acceptable winds from one in seven on Demo-2 to one in four for Crew-1.