A crewed test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will take place no sooner than July 2019 and will include only a short stay on the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docked with the International Space Station on 2019-03-03.
SpaceX is on track for testing Crew Dragon's in-flight abort capabilities in June.
NASA has no plans to extend SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 crewed test flight later this year.
SpaceX constrained the Demo-1 mission design to launch only on days when Crew Dragon could reach the station within a day to avoid propellant-line freezing.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on 2019-03-02 at 2:49 a.m. Eastern.
When NASA awarded commercial crew contracts in September 2014, the agency set a goal of having both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner certified to carry people by the end of 2017.
Crew Dragon reached orbit after a problem-free launch from Launch Complex 39A on 2019-03-02.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on mission Demo-1 undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 2:32 a.m. Eastern on 2019-03-08.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-1 departed the International Space Station early on 2019-03-08 and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean at 8:45 a.m. Eastern.
SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2019-03-02.
The Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station about 27 hours after its 2019-03-02 launch following a problem-free approach.
The station crew spent several days monitoring Crew Dragon Demo-1 while it was docked and closed hatches between the station and the spacecraft on 2019-03-07.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on 2019-03-03.
Crew Dragon will remain docked to the International Space Station until early 2019-03-08.
Hatches between Crew Dragon and the International Space Station were opened at 8:07 a.m. Eastern.
During approach to the station, Crew Dragon executed a maneuver in which it halted at 150 m and retreated to 180 m to test the ability to back away from the station.
The docking occurred 27 hours after a Falcon 9 rocket launched Crew Dragon from Florida to begin the Demo-1 test flight.
SpaceX launched the first Crew Dragon spacecraft on Demo-1 using a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2019-03-02.
Demo-1 is intended to test key Crew Dragon subsystems, including approach and docking with the station and reentry and splashdown performance.