SpaceX Crew-1
2020 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS and maiden flight of Crew Dragon Resilience / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SpaceX Crew-1 [6][7] (was also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1)[8] was the first operational[lower-alpha 2] crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011. Resilience launched on 16 November 2020 at 00:27:17 UTC[9][lower-alpha 3] on a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker along with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, all members of the Expedition 64 crew.[10][11] The mission was the second overall crewed orbital flight of the Crew Dragon.[12]
Names | USCV-1 (2012–2019) Crew-1 |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | SpaceX |
COSPAR ID | 2020-084A |
SATCAT no. | 46920 |
Mission duration | 167 days, 6 hours and 29 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Resilience |
Bus | SpaceX Dragon 2 |
Manufacturer | SpaceX |
Launch mass | 12,519 kg (27,600 lb) |
Landing mass | 9,616 kg (21,200 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 |
Members | |
Expedition | Expedition 64 / 65 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 16 November 2020, 00:27:17 (2020-11-16UTC00:27:17Z) UTC[1] |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1061.1) |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | SpaceX |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | GO Navigator |
Landing date | 2 May 2021, 06:56:33 UTC |
Landing site | Gulf of Mexico |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Harmony forward |
Docking date | 17 November 2020, 04:01 (2020-11-17UTC04:01Z) UTC[2] |
Undocking date | 5 April 2021, 10:30 UTC |
Time docked | 139 days |
Docking with ISS (relocation)[lower-alpha 1] | |
Docking port | Harmony zenith |
Docking date | 5 April 2021, 11:08 UTC |
Undocking date | 2 May 2021, 00:35 UTC [4] |
Time docked | 26 days |
SpaceX Crew-1 mission patch [5] Walker, Glover, Hopkins and Noguchi |
Crew-1 was the first operational mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Commercial Crew Program. Originally designated "USCV-1" by NASA in 2012, the launch date was delayed several times from the original date of November 2016.[13] The mission was scheduled to depart the ISS on 28 April 2021, but due to weather returned to Earth on 2 May 2021.[14][6][15] The capsule splashed down at 06:56:33 UTC, to be reused on Inspiration4.[16] It was the first nighttime splashdown for NASA astronauts since Apollo 8 in 1968.[17] On 7 February 2021, the Crew-1 broke the record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. crewed vehicle, surpassing the 84-day mark set by an Apollo capsule on the final flight to the Skylab (Skylab-4) space station on 8 February 1974.[18]