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Launch Date
3/2/2019
Launch Site
KSC LC39A
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
NASA commercial crew program manager Kathy Lueders signed off on the risks associated with the Demo-1 flight by mitigating them or concluding they were acceptable and closed out requirements with the space station program.
The 2019-04-20 SuperDraco test occurred about six weeks after the Demo-1 capsule returned from a successful uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station.
SpaceX plans to perform an in-flight abort test between Demo-1 and Demo-2 during which a Crew Dragon will use its abort system to jettison from a Falcon 9 after liftoff.
NASA and SpaceX agreed on the work remaining to prepare the spacecraft for Demo-1, and that agreement supported identifying 2018-01-07 as a possible launch date based on launch range and ISS availability.
SpaceX received a $2,600,000,000 contract in 2014 for final development and testing of Crew Dragon, which included an uncrewed Demo-1 test flight in March 2019 and up to six operational flights to the station.
Booster B1051 first launched the Demo-1 commercial crew test flight three years ago and has also launched the Radarsat Constellation Mission, the SXM-7 radio satellite, and nine Starlink missions including the 2022-03-19 flight.