The California SpaceX company has seen its unmanned Dragon cargo ship attach successfully to the International Space Station (ISS).
The second stage will continue the journey with Crew Dragon.
The actual Crew Dragon capsule is capable of carrying up to seven passengers to and from Earth's orbit. In February 2018, the central core of Falcon Heavy Test Flight exploded near OCISLY, which damaged two of the four thrusters on the drone ship.
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship is headed back to Earth today (April 7) to wrap up a successful resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Dragon CRS-20, a veteran spacecraft that has now made three resupply runs to the space station, is SpaceX's final flight of a $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Service 1 contract with NASA. Astronauts … Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported Dragon’s 19th and 20th resupply missions to the International Space Station. SpaceX has two operational drone ships.
... On 8 April 2016 the first stage, which launched the Dragon CRS-8 spacecraft, successfully landed for the first time ever on OCISLY, which is also the first ever drone ship landing. Following stage separation, SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will be carrying the Crew Dragon space capsule on top of it and on board will be NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, 49, and Douglas Hurley, 53, both veterans of … SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon astronauts settle into life at the space station. It is 13 feet wide and nearly 27 feet tall Credit: SpaceX. By Samantha Mathewson . Crew Dragon evolved from an earlier design, called Dragon 1, which launched 20 times on missions to deliver cargo to the ISS between May 2012 and March 2020. A lead SpaceX engineer said an anomaly that destroyed its Crew Dragon capsule, designed to fly NASA astronauts, was caused by a small valve.
SpaceX 's Crew Dragon docked to the space station's Harmony module on Sunday, May 31, at at 3.16pm BST.
This mission marked SpaceX’s first SmallSat Rideshare Program launch. Hurley and Behnken arrived at the lab Sunday after launch and a flawless rendezvous aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. In a historic first, the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft marks the first time that two American cargo ships are simultaneously docked to the ISS. The ship recovered Dragon during the first 4 CRS missions before NRC Quest took over the role. (SpaceX via AP) The Crew Dragon capsule will be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It's the end of an era for SpaceX. The first stage will return to a SpaceX landing ship which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. American Islander was a ship used to recover Cargo Dragon.