Human Spaceflight
CREW DRAGON 2
Crew Dragon Demo-2 was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on May 30, 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station in the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and the first ever operated by a commercial provider. Demo-2 was also the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since STS-4 in 1982. Demo-2 completed the validation of crewed spaceflight operations using SpaceX hardware and received human-rating certification for the spacecraft, including astronaut testing of Crew Dragon capabilities on orbit.
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- Launch date
- April 23, 2021 at 09:49 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 Block 5 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- Crew-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 426 km
- Periapsis
- 417 km
- Inclination
- 51.58°
- Orbital period
- 93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 13,055 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 48209
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 9, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 9, 2021
- Time in service
- 200 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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