Crew Dragon Endurance

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Endurance
Endurance arriving at LC-39A's hangar prior the launch of Crew-3
TypeCrewed space capsule
ClassDragon 2
ManufacturerSpaceX
History
First flight

Crew Dragon Endurance (Dragon C210) is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX and built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. In November 2021, it will be launched into orbit to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-3 mission which will become a part of Expedition 66.

On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 will 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]

Flights

Mission Patch Launch date (UTC) Landing date (UTC) Crew Duration Remarks Outcome
Crew-3 11 November 2021, 02:03 UTC (planned) [3] Late April 2022
Long duration mission. Will ferry four members of the Expedition 67 crew to the ISS. Planned

References

  1. ^ "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Retrieved 7 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  3. ^ Sempsrott, Danielle (30 October 2021). "NASA, SpaceX Adjust Next Space Station Crew Rotation Launch Date". NASA. Retrieved 30 October 2021.

External links

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