SpaceX completed 26 tests of the new 2020-03-03 parachute system to date, including tests during the in-flight abort test of a Crew Dragon spacecraft in January.
NASA announced a four-person crew for the first operational Crew Dragon mission on 2020-03-31 that features three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the Japanese space agency JAXA.
If SpaceX’s Demo-2 flight occurs on schedule and is successful, NASA will likely launch the first operational Crew Dragon mission, Crew-1, in 2020-06-30.
A Crew Dragon test article was lost on 2020-03-24 when a planned parachute test was aborted.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will fly the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS and remain there for at least several days before returning to Earth.
NASA plans to perform a crewed flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts onboard as soon as the latter half of May.
Axiom Space signed a contract with SpaceX for a commercial Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station on 2021-03-05.
Space Adventures has an agreement for a Crew Dragon mission launching between late 2021 and mid-2022 that will carry four private astronauts into an orbit more than twice as high as the International Space Station and will not go to the station.
The Axiom commercial Crew Dragon mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than the second half of 2021.
The forward hatch on the International Space Station had not been opened since the last space shuttle visit prior to the arrival of Crew Dragon DM-1.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived in Florida in February 2020 for final tests and launch integration activities.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center released images on 2020-02-22 of astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley training for the Demo-2 mission to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
In June 2019, Bigelow Aerospace paid deposits and reservation fees for four Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station and planned to sell seats on those flights for $52,000,000 each.
The planned Crew Dragon mission would last for five days and is planned to launch between late 2021 and mid-2022.
The planned Space Adventures Crew Dragon mission is scheduled for as soon as late 2021 and would set a new world altitude record for private citizen spaceflight by flying at least twice as high as the International Space Station.
Space Adventures set a goal for the Crew Dragon mission to reach an altitude of more than 1,0 m, approaching the crewed orbital apogee record of 1,374 km set by Gemini 11 in 1966.
The Falcon 9 booster that flew on 2020-01-29 previously launched SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on a 2019-03-01 demonstration mission for NASA and launched three Canadian radar satellites in 2019-06-01.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon completed a successful in-flight abort test on 2020-01-19.
The destruction of the Demo-1 Crew Dragon forced SpaceX to use the Crew Dragon being built for Demo-2 for the abort test.
SpaceX successfully tested the abort system of its Crew Dragon spacecraft on 2020-01-19.