Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley arrived at the International Space Station on 2020-05-31, 19 hours after their Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station on 2020-05-31.
Detachment 3 has been training for the Crew Dragon mission for five years.
The military is supporting three capsules: SpaceX Crew Dragon, Boeing Starliner, and Lockheed Martin Orion.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on 2020-05-31.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket at 3:22 p.m. Eastern on 2020-05-30.
President Donald Trump delivered a speech inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center a little more than 90 minutes after the Crew Dragon reached orbit.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft reached orbit on 2020-05-30 with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board.
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley joined the commercial crew cadre of astronauts in 2015 to train on both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicles.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 was scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 4:33 p.m. Eastern on 2020-05-27 to place a Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit.
SpaceX carried out 27 tests of the Crew Dragon 2020-03-03 parachute system since fall 2019.
The SuperDraco anomaly led to improved understanding of material compatibility with nitrogen tetroxide and to improvements in the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX successfully completed the final test of the Crew Dragon 2020-03-03 parachute system on 2020-05-01.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on the morning of 2020-05-21.
45th Operations Group Detachment 3 has worked on tactics, techniques, and procedures for five years to be ready to support SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on the Demo-2 mission.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is scheduled to launch on 2020-05-27 on a test flight with two NASA astronauts aboard.
SpaceX performed 12 successful multi-parachute tests of the 2020-03-03 parachutes and used them on the Crew Dragon in-flight abort test in 2020-01-01.
SpaceX was still completing testing of the 2020-03-03 parachutes used by the Crew Dragon spacecraft as of mid-2020-04-01.
Axiom Space will purchase a commercial Crew Dragon mission from SpaceX to fly private astronauts to the International Space Station as soon as the second half of 2021.