Crew Dragon Demo-2 — first crewed flight
The first crewed Crew Dragon flight carried Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS, validated SpaceX’s crew transportation system and ended with a safe splashdown on 2 August 2020.
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open person →A Falcon 9 carrying Crew Dragon Endeavour lifted off from historic LC-39A in Florida.
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Crew Dragon separated from the second stage, reached orbit and opened its forward trunk cover.
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After roughly 19 hours of free flight, Endeavour autonomously docked with the Harmony module of the International Space Station.
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Behnken and Hurley worked aboard the station as members of Expedition 63 and helped prepare the transition to regular Crew Dragon…
číst kapitolu →Endeavour departed the station, reentered the atmosphere and safely splashed down with both astronauts in the Gulf of Mexico.
číst kapitolu →Demo-2 was the first crewed flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched from LC-39A, docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth after roughly two months.
- The first crewed Crew Dragon launch and the first crewed launch from Florida since the Space Shuttle era ended in 2011.
- The astronauts named their spacecraft Endeavour after the Space Shuttles both had previously flown.
- Demo-2 was not a routine crew rotation but the final end-to-end test before system certification.
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