Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon on March 18, 2025, nine months after their Starliner launch.
Axiom Space currently operates private crewed missions to the International Space Station using SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicles.
On Friday, 13 February Sophie Adenot was launched aboard the SpaceX Crew-12 mission in a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
In early 2024 Sweden’s Marcus Wandt became the first of the 12 ESA reserve astronauts to secure a mission to the International Space Station on an Axiom-sponsored SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
The sixth Private Astronaut Mission is scheduled to launch as early as summer 2027 from Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Crew Dragon has fallen back into the discernible atmosphere.
Crew Dragon recovery crews are on site now working to safe the Crew Dragon.
Re-entry heating for Crew Dragon will ramp up momentarily.
Crew Dragon experienced a communications blackout during re-entry.
Signal re-acquisition for Crew Dragon is expected at approximately 3:35am EST (0835 UTC) on January 15, 2026.
Crew Dragon Endeavour successfully returned four people back to Earth.
A recovery ship utilized a crane to retrieve the Crew Dragon spacecraft following its splashdown.
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata was part of the Crew-11 mission aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Crew Dragon Endeavour completed its sixth mission to the International Space Station.
NASA will return Crew Dragon in the coming days.
Crew-11 arrived at the ISS on a Crew Dragon in early August and was scheduled to return no earlier than the latter half of February.
Crew Dragon is scheduled to undock from the ISS around 5pm EST on Wednesday and splash down off the California coast at 3:40am EST on Thursday.
NASA and SpaceX announced the scheduled departure and return of the Crew Dragon spacecraft (Crew-11) with astronaut Koichi Wakata from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth.
NASA plans to undock the Crew Dragon spacecraft from the ISS on January 14, 2026.
SpaceX has contracts for Artemis lunar landers, Crew Dragon missions to the ISS, and cargo delivery services.