Bob Behnken flew on the first Crew Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts, Demo-2, in 2020 with Doug Hurley, and that mission experienced a weather-related scrub before launching successfully.
The EVA suit includes improved thermal management compared with Crew Dragon pressure suits.
The Falcon 9 launching Polaris Dawn will place Crew Dragon into an initial elliptical orbit of approximately 190 by 1,200 km.
Crew Dragon on Polaris Dawn will raise its apogee to about 1,400 km, the highest altitude for a crewed mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The Starliner launch can remain on schedule provided the Crew Dragon port relocation takes place by 2024-05-02 or 2024-05-03.
The CFT launch was previously planned for 2024-05-01 but was delayed because of International Space Station activities, including revised schedules for the departure of a cargo Dragon vehicle and the relocation of the Crew Dragon to free the forward docking port on the Harmony module.
A report stated that a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is about three times safer than a ride on NASA’s space shuttle was in its final years.
Commercial Crew astronauts have continued the tradition of naming their spacecraft, such as 'Endeavour' for the Crew Dragon used in the first crewed test flight.
Crew-7 is scheduled to depart the International Space Station in their Crew Dragon spacecraft at 11:05 a.m. Eastern on 2024-03-10.
SpaceX is building a fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft that will be ready late 2024 for the Crew-10 mission in 2025.
Crew-8's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at approximately 7 a.m. Eastern on 2024-03-02.
Energy modulator straps worked as intended on the Ax-3 private astronaut Crew Dragon mission that splashed down 2024-02-09.
SpaceX is completing a fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft that is notionally planned to fly the Crew-10 mission in 2025 and is expected to be ready in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The Crew-7 Crew Dragon mission is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station no earlier than 2024-03-08.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft is set to launch to the International Space Station on the Crew-8 mission on March 1, 2023.
Dr. Soichi Noguchi became the first non-American to go to space aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2020.
Polaris Dawn will test intersatellite communications using optical links between the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Starlink satellites.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the Florida coast on 2024-02-09, concluding a three-week private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Polaris Dawn is intended to perform the first spacewalk from a Crew Dragon spacecraft using spacesuits being developed by SpaceX.
Hayley Arceneaux, a cancer survivor with a prosthetic leg, was a member of the Inspiration4 Crew Dragon mission in 2021.