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Crew Dragon Resilience (serial number C207) is the second operational Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX, after the Endurance . It first launched on 16 November 2020 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-1 mission, the first operational flight of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. It was subsequently used for Inspiration4 in 2021, the first private spaceflight mission with an all-civilian crew, and the Polaris Dawn mission in September 2024. It is scheduled to next operate the private Fram2 spaceflight mission in 2025.
| Crew Dragon Resilience | |
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.jpg) Crew Dragon Resilience in the horizontal integration facility shortly before being rolled out to pad 39A in November 2020 | |
| 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, being refurbished for Fram2 mission |
| First flight |
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| Last flight |
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| Flights | 3 |
| Flight time | 175 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes |
| Dragon 2s | |
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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.[1] 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.[2] Crew Dragon C207 arrived at SpaceX processing facilities in Florida on 18 August 2020.[3][4]
At a NASA press conference on 29 September 2020, commander Michael Hopkins revealed that C207 had been named Resilience.[5] The trunk was attached and secured to the capsule on 2 October 2020 at Cape Canaveral.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
For Polaris Dawn mission, as Crew Dragon capsules lack an airlock, several modifications have been made to the interior of Resilience. Extra nitrogen and oxygen tanks have been installed, a hatch with a ladder called the "skywalker" has replaced the docking port, and the forward hatch has been motorized. To validate their procedures, Resilience underwent multiple cycles of venting and repressurization in a large vacuum chamber. The crew also spent two days in a chamber validating their pre-breathing protocol and wearing their EVA suits in a vacuum.The mission will also be the first crewed operational test of Dragon laser interlink communication via Starlink. If successful, it would potentially decrease communication latency and increase data bandwidth for human spaceflight.[9]
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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 |
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| 1 | Crew-1  |
16 November 2020, 00:27:17 | 2 May 2021, 06:56:33 | 167 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 64/65 crew to the ISS. First operational flight of the Commercial Crew Program. | Success | |
| 2 | Inspiration4 (patch 1 and 2) | 16 September 2021, 00:02:56 | 18 September 2021, 23:06:49 | 2 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes | The first fully private, all-civilian orbital flight. Crew reached a 585 km (364 mi) orbit and conducted science experiments and public outreach activities for three days.[10] First standalone orbital Crew Dragon flight and the first flight with the cupola. | Success | |
| 3 | Polaris Dawn | 10 September 2024, 09:23:49 | 15 September 2024, 07:36:54 | 4 days, 22 hours, 13 minutes | Fully private orbital flight, including two SpaceX employees. First of three planned flights of the private Polaris Program. The highest orbital altitude achieved, 1,400 km (870 mi) away from Earth, was the highest ever flown by a crewed spacecraft since the Apollo program. Isaacman and Gillis later made the first commercial spacewalk during the mission. | Success | |
| 4 | Fram2 (patch) | March 2025 | TBA | 3–5 days (planned) | Fully private, all-civilian orbital flight. First crewed mission ever launched into Polar Orbit.[11] | Planned | |
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