NASA and SpaceX entered a Space Act Agreement announced approximately three months before the 2022-12-22 RFI to study a Crew Dragon mission to reboost and possibly service Hubble.
SpaceX operates four Crew Dragon spacecraft and plans to build a fifth Crew Dragon that is likely to be the company’s final crewed spacecraft.
The new Crew Dragon planned by SpaceX should be ready for its first flight in the 2024 timeframe.
Ax-2 is a Crew Dragon flight scheduled to launch no earlier than 2023-05-01, to the International Space Station.
Crew Dragon Freedom undocked from the International Space Station at 12:05 p.m. Eastern on 2022-10-14 and splashed down less than five hours later.
The less-than-five-hour interval between undocking and splashdown on 2022-10-14 set a record for the fastest return of a Crew Dragon from the International Space Station.
SpaceX completed its fourth operational commercial crew mission to the International Space Station on 2022-10-14 with the safe return of a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA postponed Crew Dragon Freedom’s planned departure from the station on 2022-10-12 and a planned morning departure on 2022-10-13 because of weather at splashdown locations off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida.
Weather conditions improved, allowing Crew Dragon Freedom to undock at 12:05 p.m. Eastern on 2022-10-14 for the return to Earth.
Jared Isaacman is the founder of payments company Shift4 and led the Inspiration4 private astronaut mission on a Crew Dragon in 2021.
The July seat barter agreement includes seat exchanges between Soyuz and Crew Dragon missions in 2023 and 2024.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with four people on board launched to the International Space Station on 2022-10-05.
The baseline concept would involve a Crew Dragon spacecraft docking with Hubble and raising its orbit, possibly using a capture mechanism installed during the last shuttle servicing mission in 2009.
Jared Isaacman led the private Inspiration4 Crew Dragon mission in 2021.
NASA and SpaceX announced on 2022-09-29 an unfunded Space Act Agreement to explore using a Crew Dragon spacecraft to reboost Hubble.
Ax-2 is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2023 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The total value of SpaceX’s CCtCap contract, originally awarded in 2014 to complete development and testing of Crew Dragon followed by six operational missions, is now $4,930,000,000.
NASA and Roscosmos implemented an agreement for integrated crews announced 2022-07-15 that includes crew exchanges between Soyuz and Crew Dragon missions.
NASA planned to have a crew swap on the upcoming Crew Dragon and Soyuz flights despite the lack of a completed agreement and heightened tensions created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Roscosmos scheduled the Crew-5 mission for launch on 2022-09-01 and indicated on 2022-06-25 that Anna Kikina was going to the United States for additional training, including fitting for a Crew Dragon pressure suit, and that she was still being considered for the Crew-5 mission.