SpaceX Crew-1 is the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. It is also the first crewed night launch by the United States since STS-130.
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The Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience, launched on 16 November 2020 on a Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A.
The mission is the second overall crewed orbital flight of the Crew Dragon.
Crew-1 is the first operational mission to the International Space Station in the Commercial Crew Program. Originally designated “USCV-1” by NASA in 2012, the launch date was delayed several times from the original date of November 2016.
There were four crew members inside the Crew Dragon capsule as a Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A.
Over the course of the mission, the astronauts will live and work alongside the three astronauts of the Soyuz MS-17 mission.
Together, the two missions will form ISS Expedition 64. Assuming the regular ISS crew rotation schedule is adhered to, the crew will transfer to Expedition 65 following the departure of Soyuz MS-17, currently scheduled for April 2021.
Booster SN B1061 for the mission successfully landed on “Just Read the Instructions”.
