Crew Dragon E deavour

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Endeavour
C206

Endeavour during processing prior to Demo-2 at the KSC.
Country	United States
Named after	HMS Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour
Status	Active, currently in space
First flight	Crew Dragon Demo-2 30 May 2020
No. of missions	1
Crew members	2
Days spent in space	Currently in space
No. of orbits	Currently in orbit
ISS dockings	1

Crew Dragon Endeavour (SpaceX Designation: C206) is a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program, intended to ferry crew to the International Space Station.

The spacecraft launched on its first flight to space on 30 May 2020 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 booster, carrying NASA astronaut's Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station on a one to three month test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft known as SpX-DM2. The mission marked the first crewed flight of Crew Dragon and the first crewed spacecraft to launch into orbit from American soil since the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, STS-135, which was flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011..

History

C206 was originally intended to fly on Crew-1, the first fully fledged long-duration crew rotation mission to the ISS following Demo-2. Although on 20 April 2019, Crew Dragon C201 (the capsule previously used on Demo-1) exploded during a static fire test ahead of its re flight on the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test, then scheduled for May of that year. The explosion resulted in a reshuffle of the Crew Dragon manifest, with capsule C205 being brought forward for the In-Flight Abort Test and C206 being penciled in for Demo-2.

Following the successful completion of the In-Flight Abort Test 19 January 2020, SpaceX began preparations for Demo-2. C206 arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Processing Facility on 15 May 2020, the previous month NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine had announced that Demo-2 was scheduled to lift off on 27 May.

Endeavour atop B1058 following rollout to Pad 39A.

Later that month the capsule was integrated atop of of Falcon 9 booster B1058, the booster and capsule rolled out to Launch Complex 39A on 21 May 2020 and completed a Static fire the next day. Following a launch scrub due to weather on 27 May, Hurley and Behnken successfully launched on 30 May 2020, carrying the two on a successful 12 minute journey to orbit ahead of a 19 hour rendezvous with the ISS. Shortly following launch the crew took part in a live media event from orbit where they officially revealed the name of the capsule to be Endeavour, after the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the shuttle that had launched the two astronauts on both of their first flights into space (STS-123 for Behnken and STS-127 for Hurley). Space Shuttle Endeavour was in turn named after the 18th century Royal Navy vessel, HMS Endeavour

Flights

Endeavour launched on its first flight, Demo-2, on 30 May 2020. Although as of 2020 NASA has no intention of reusing Crew Dragon capsules on crewed missions, SpaceX has confirmed Crew Dragon is capable of being reused and may be reused on future private astronaut missions.

Mission	Patch	Crew	Notes	Outcome
Demo-2		Douglas Hurley Robert Behnken	Crewed test flight to the International Space Station, First crewed flight of Crew Dragon and first crewed flight from American soil since STS-135 in 2011.	In flight

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