Crew Dragon Endurance

Crew Dragon Endurance (serial number C210) is the third operational SpaceX Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. It first launched on 11 November 2021 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. It has subsequently been used for the Crew-5 mission launched in October 2022 and the Crew-7 mission launched in August 2023. It is scheduled to fly the SpaceX Crew-10 mission in March 2025. The capsule was named in honor of the SpaceX and NASA teams who worked to build the spacecraft during the COVID-19 pandemic and Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Crew Dragon Endurance
Crew Dragon Endurance during rollout to pad 39A in October 2022.
Type	Space capsule
Class	Dragon 2
Eponym	Endurance
Serial no.	C210
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	Cape Canaveral, Florida, being prepared for SpaceX Crew-10 mission
First flight	11 November 2021–6 May 2022 SpaceX Crew-3
Last flight	26 August 2023–12 March 2024 SpaceX Crew-7
Flights	3
Flight time	532 days, 14 hours, 59 minutes
Dragon 2s
← C209 C211 →

History

On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 would be called Endurance.^[1] Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica^[2] and was found during the Crew-3 mission.^[3]

Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.

Flights

List includes only completed or currently manifested missions. Dates are listed in UTC, and for future events, they are the earliest possible opportunities (also known as NET dates) and may change.

Flight No.	Mission and Patch	Launch	Landing	Duration	Remarks	Crew	Outcome
1	Crew-3	11 November 2021, 02:03:31	6 May 2022, 04:43:23	176 days, 2 hours, 39 minutes	Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS.	Raja Chari Thomas Marshburn Kayla Barron Matthias Maurer	Success
2	Crew-5	5 October 2022, 16:00:57	12 March 2023, 02:02	157 days, 10 hours, 1 minute	Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 68 crew to the ISS.	Nicole Aunapu Mann Josh A. Cassada Koichi Wakata Anna Kikina	Success
3	Crew‑7	26 August 2023, 07:27:27	12 March 2024, 09:47	199 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes	Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 69/70 crew to the ISS.	Jasmin Moghbeli Andreas Mogensen Satoshi Furukawa Konstantin Borisov	Success
4	Crew-10	12 March 2025 (planned)	Q3 2025	180 days (planned)	Long-duration mission. Will ferry four Expedition 73 crew members to the ISS.	Anne McClain Nichole Ayers Takuya Onishi Kirill Peskov	Planned

Gallery

• Crew Dragon Endurance Gallery
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  Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the ISS on the Crew-3 mission
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  Endurance splashdown to the Atlantic Ocean after the end of the Crew-3 mission

References

• Spaceflight portal

1. "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
2. "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
3. "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic". BBC News. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.

External links

• Media related to Crew Dragon Endurance at Wikimedia Commons