Crew Dragon Resilience (Dragon C207) is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX and built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. In November 2020, it was launched into orbit to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-1 mission. With crew prompting, Resilience docked autonomously to the station at 04:01 UTC on 17 November 2020, or Day 2 of the mission, marking the first operational docking of a Crew Dragon and the first operational docking of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission carried four additional members of Expedition 64 to the three already on station.[1][2]
| Resilience | |
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.jpg) Resilience at the International Space Station. | |
| Type | Space capsule |
| Class | Dragon 2 |
| Serial no. | C207 |
| Owner | SpaceX |
| Manufacturer | SpaceX |
| Specifications | |
| Dimensions | 4.4 m × 3.7 m (14 ft × 12 ft) |
| Power | Solar panel |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 |
| History | |
| Location | Hawthorne, California |
| First flight |
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| Last flight |
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| Flights | 2 |
| Flight time | 170 days, 5 hours and 32 minutes |
| Dragon 2s | |
Resilience returned to Earth at the end of the Crew-1 mission on 2 May 2021, and soon after began refurbishment ahead of its next assignment, the Inspiration4 mission which launched on 16 September 2021.[3][4][5]
History
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Originally planned to fly the mission after Crew-1, Crew Dragon C207 was reassigned to fly Crew-1 after an anomaly during a static fire test destroyed capsule C204 intended to be re-flown on the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test.[6] The spacecraft C205 intended to be used on the Demo-2 mission replaced the destroyed spacecraft for the in-flight abort test. C206 intended for use with the Crew-1 mission, was reassigned to the Demo-2 mission.
On 1 May 2020, SpaceX said that spacecraft C207 was in production and astronaut training underway.[7] Crew Dragon C207 arrived at SpaceX processing facilities in Florida on 18 August 2020.[8][9]
At a NASA press conference on 29 September 2020, commander Michael Hopkins revealed that C207 had been named Resilience.[10] The trunk was attached and secured to the capsule on 2 October 2020 at Cape Canaveral.[11]
Resilience was first launched on 16 November 2020 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.[1]
The docking adapter, normally used to dock with the International Space Station, was replaced by a domed glass window for the Inspiration4 mission. This allows for 360-degree views of space and the Earth, similar to those provided by the Cupola Module on the ISS.[12]
Flights
| Flight No | Mission | Patch | Launch date (UTC) | Landing date (UTC) | Crew | Duration | Remarks | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crew-1 |  | 16 November 2020, 00:27:17[1] | 2 May 2021, 06:56:33[13] | 167 days | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 64/65 crew to the ISS. First operational flight of Crew Dragon and of the Commercial Crew Program. | Success | |
| 2 | Inspiration4 | (patch 1 and patch 2) | 16 September 2021, 00:02:56[14] | 18 September 2021, 23:07 | 2 days and 23 hours | Commercial mission contracted by Jared Isaacman in an effort to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The first all-civilian space mission.[14] | Success | |
| 3 | Polaris Dawn | (patch) | NET 31 July 2024 | NET July 2024 | 5 days (planned) | Five-day commercial mission for the Polaris Program targeting an apogee of 1,400 km (870 mi; 760 nmi). Polaris Dawn will conduct research on the effects of spaceflight and space radiation on human health. The crew will also attempt the first commercial extravehicular activity using a new generation of SpaceX-designed spacesuits. | Planned | |
| 4 | Polaris Mission 2 | 2025–26 | 2025–26 | TBA | Second Mission of Polaris Program. | Planned |
See also
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References
External links
Media related to Crew Dragon Resilience at Wikimedia Commons
