The Falcon 9 launch of Sentinel-6A and Crew Dragon flights carrying ESA astronauts were procured and overseen by NASA rather than by ESA.
Vast’s Haven-1 is a single-module space station designed to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and support visits by four-person crews aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for up to 30 days at a time.
SpaceX launched the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission three years prior to this delay and has launched 10 crewed missions for NASA and private customers.
The next Axiom private astronaut mission, Ax-3, is planned for no earlier than late 2023 and will fly on a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on 2023-05-30, concluding Axiom Space’s Ax-2 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Liftoff of a Falcon 9 carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft for Ax-2 is scheduled for 5:37 p.m. Eastern on 2023-05-21, with docking planned for 2023-05-22 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.
NASA completed the Crew Dragon feasibility study and was internally evaluating the findings as of 2023-05-12.
Ax-3 will use a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, as did Ax-1 and Ax-2.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the Florida coast on 2023-03-11, returning four people from the International Space Station.
With the addition of the Crew-7 agreement, coverage would extend to Crew-7 and Crew-8, the following Crew Dragon rotation mission planned for 2024.
The Crew-6 launch took place almost to the hour four years after the first Crew Dragon launch on the uncrewed Demo-1 mission.
Crew Dragon Endeavour was scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 1:17 a.m. Eastern on 2023-03-03.
Jared Isaacman led the Inspiration4 private astronaut mission that flew four people for three days on a Crew Dragon in 2021.
NASA performed an inspection of the exterior of the Crew-5 Crew Dragon docked to the station and found no evidence of damage from micrometeoroids or orbital debris.
NASA is scheduled to launch the Crew-6 mission to the ISS on 2023-02-26 using a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
NASA is moving ahead with plans to launch the Crew-6 Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station on 2023-02-26 at 2:07 a.m. Eastern.
A seat barter agreement completed in July 2022 covered the flights of Anna Kikina and Andrey Fedyaev on Crew Dragon and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Loral O’Hara on Soyuz.
On 2023-01-18 astronauts moved Frank Rubio’s custom-fitted seat liner from Soyuz MS-22 to the Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station.
Crew-6 is scheduled to launch in mid to late February with the Crew-5 Crew Dragon returning a few days later.
The launch of Soyuz MS-23 will slightly delay the Crew-6 Crew Dragon launch and NASA will revise the schedule for Crew-6 and other near-term flights, a process expected to take up to a couple weeks.