Falcon 9: Crew Dragon Crew-1 (ISS mission)

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HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 2:40 a.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 31, for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.

 

The new target date will deconflict the Crew-1 launch and arrival from upcoming Soyuz launch and landing operations. This additional time is needed to ensure closure of all open work, both on the ground and aboard the station, ahead of the Crew-1 arrival. The increased spacing also will provide a good window of opportunity to conduct additional testing to isolate the station atmosphere leak if required.

SpaceX continues to make progress on preparations of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, and the adjusted date allows the teams additional time for completing open work ahead of launch.

Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be carried to the station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The launch will be the first time an international crew will fly aboard a NASA-certified, commercially-owned and operated American rocket and spacecraft from American soil.

Following the launch, the Crew-1 astronauts are scheduled to arrive at the space station for a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.

NASA is in the final stages of the data reviews needed ahead of certification following the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight. Teams from NASA and SpaceX will provide an update on the process during upcoming media briefings beginning at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 29, hosted from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

For more information about the mission, visit:  https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew.

 

 

 

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Enter: Crew Dragon "Resilience"

 

The DM-2 review found 2 issues;

 

1) slightly more heat shield erosion than expected around the Trunk's 4 tension ties (attachments).  Fix: harder tiles there.

 

2) the parachutes opened within the specified altitude range, but a little low. Fix: use a different altitude sensor.

 

https://spacenews.com/nasa-and-spacex-wrapping-up-certification-of-crew-dragon/

 

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NASA and SpaceX wrapping up certification of Crew Dragon

 

WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are finalizing reviews of minor changes to the Crew Dragon spacecraft that they expect will be complete before the first operational mission launches to the International Space Station at the end of October.
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The four astronauts who will fly on the Crew-1 mission — NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi — said they were ready for the flight, having finished all their training for the mission except for a few final simulator sessions. The astronauts announced that, following the tradition of the Demo-2 mission, where astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley named their Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endeavour,” they had selected the name “Resilience” for their spacecraft.

“I think all of us can agree that 2020 has certainly been a challenging year,” Hopkins said. “The name ‘Resilience’ is really in honor of the SpaceX and NASA teams and, quite frankly, it’s in honor of our families, our colleagues, our fellow citizens, international partners and leaders, who have all shown that same quality, that same characteristic through these difficult times.”
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Edited September 30, 2020 by DocM

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Game On...

 

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HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 14, for the launch of the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Managers of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 28, to discuss the upcoming launch, including results from recent testing of the Falcon 9 Merlin engines following unexpected data SpaceX noted during a recent non-NASA launch. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.

Briefing participants include:

Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington

Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston

Hans Koenigsmann, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX, Hawthorne, California

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will launch the agency’s astronauts  Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.

Crew-1 astronauts will join the Expedition 64 crew of Commander Sergey Ryzhikov, and Flight Engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins. The arrival of Crew-1 will increase the regular crew size of the space station’s expedition missions from six to seven astronauts, adding to the amount of crew time available for research.

The Crew-1 mission will launch a few days after the Nov. 10 scheduled launch of NASA’s Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, following a thorough review of launch vehicle performance.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

For more information about the mission, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

 

 

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Crew Dragon Crew-1 slips: weather (not unexpected)

 

Date: November 15, 2020

Time: 1927 Eastern (0027 UT)

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Dragon Crew-1 launch stream

 

 

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SpaceX Crew-1 stream

 

 

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Streams are live

 

The plan for Crew-2 is March 30, 2021 at 0046;36 Eastern.  It'll re-use the DM-2 'Endeavour' spacecraft and F9 booster from today's Crew-1.

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GO for launch

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Weather now 80%

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Crew Access Arm retracting

 

SuperDraco escape system armed

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Hopkins: "Crew One For All"

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LIFTOFF!

Godspeed Crew-1

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Continuing coverage. Crew wakes up about 1200 Eastern.

 

 

 

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Crew Dragon Crew-1 beats Skylab record

 

 

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Crew Dragon Crew-1's Soichi Noguchi demonstrates donning SpaceX's spacesuit...

 

 

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Coming home...

 

Inspration4 is scheduled to be Crew Dragon Resilience's next mission, NET September 15.

 

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HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA  astronauts Michael Hopkins,  Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is now targeting a return to Earth at 11:36 a.m. EDT Saturday, May 1, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 5:55 p.m. Friday, April 30, to begin the journey home.

 

NASA and SpaceX agreed to move Crew-1’s undocking and splashdown from Wednesday, April 28, following a review of forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida, which currently predict wind speeds above the recovery criteria. Teams will continue to monitor weather conditions for splashdown ahead of Friday’s planned undocking.

 

The return to Earth – and activities leading up to the return – will air live on NASA Television, the NASA App, and the agency’s website. 

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