SpaceX Crew-4
2022 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS and maiden flight of Crew Dragon Freedom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SpaceX Crew-4 was the Crew Dragon's fourth NASA Commercial Crew operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 27 April 2022 at 07:52 UTC[6] before docking with the International Space Station (ISS) at 23:37 UTC. It followed shortly after the private Axiom 1 mission to the ISS earlier in the month utilizing SpaceX hardware. Three American (NASA) astronauts and one European (ESA) astronaut were on board the mission.[7][8] [9]
Names | USCV-4 |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | SpaceX |
COSPAR ID | 2022-042A |
SATCAT no. | 52318 |
Mission duration | 170 days, 13 hours and 3 minutes [1][2] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Freedom |
Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
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 67 / 68 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 27 April 2022, 07:52:55 UTC[3] |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1067.4) |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | SpaceX |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | MV Megan |
Landing date | 14 October 2022, 20:55 UTC[4] |
Landing site | Atlantic Ocean |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.64° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Harmony zenith |
Docking date | 27 April 2022, 23:37 UTC |
Undocking date | 14 October 2022, 16:05 UTC[5] |
Time docked | 169 days and 16 hours |
SpaceX Crew-4 mission patch Hines, Cristoforetti, Watkins, and Lindgren (L-R) |
Crew-4 was the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom, named such by the crew because it "celebrates a fundamental human right, and the industry and innovation that emanate from the unencumbered human spirit".[10] The booster used on this mission was the B1067, which makes it the first Commercial Crew mission to use a booster on its fourth flight (it previously was used to launch SpaceX Crew-3 in 2021).[11]