SpaceX Crew-2

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Mission dates
Mission: SpaceX Crew-2
Spacecraft: Crew Dragon
serial no. C206
Call sign: "Endeavor"
Launcher: Falcon 9
Crew: 4th
Begin: April 23, 2021 , 09:49 UTC
Starting place: Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A
Space station: ISS
Coupling: April 24, 2021, 09:08 UTC
Landing:
October 31, 2021 at the earliest (planned)
Landing place: Atlantic
Team photo
From left to right: Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet, Akihiko Hoshide, Shane Kimbrough
From left to right: Megan McArthur , Thomas Pesquet , Akihiko Hoshide , Shane Kimbrough
◄ Before / After ►
SpaceX Crew-1
(manned) 		OFT-2
(unmanned)
Next manned mission:
SpaceX Crew-3

SpaceX Crew-2 , also known as Crew-2 for short , is the third manned flight of a Crew Dragon spaceship. The mission is being carried out by the US space company SpaceX on behalf of NASA . It launched on April 23, 2021 and brought four astronauts to the ISS for a six-month long-term mission . For the first time, a reconditioned Crew Dragon capsule is used, the Endeavor capsule of the SpX-DM2 mission.

crew

NASA, ESA and JAXA announced the crew for the flight on July 28, 2020. She will be part of ISS Expedition 65 .

The commander is NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough . It is his third space flight.

Crew Dragon is piloted by NASA astronaut Megan McArthur on her second space flight.

The Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and the French Thomas Pesquet were assigned as mission specialists . It is the third space flight for Akihiko and the second for Pesquet. Pesquest's mission is also called Alpha by ESA .

According to ESA, the German astronaut Matthias Maurer was a member of the replacement team.

Mission history

The start of the mission was initially planned for April 22, 2021. The day before, however, the date was postponed to April 23, because the forecast of bad weather in the Northwest Atlantic meant that the risk in the event of an emergency landing and recovery of the space capsule was assumed.

See also

Web links

Commons : SpaceX Crew-2  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Crew-2: NASA, SpaceX Reschedule Launch for Friday at 5:49 am EDT . NASA blog from April 21, 2021.
  2. ^ Crew Dragon Docks to Station Day After Launch . NASA blog from April 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ a b NASA, SpaceX Relocate Crew-1 Dragon; More Crewed Flight Preps Continue . NASA blog from April 5, 2021.
  4. ↑ Emilee Speck: What needs to happen before SpaceX's Dragon Endeavor flies astronauts again? In: ClickOrlando. August 3, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission . NASA press release dated July 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ ISS: ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer will fly to the ISS in 2021. In: Spektrum.de. July 29, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 .