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SpaceX Dragon undocks from ISS l Andreas Mogensen

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Starship, Crew Dragon, Space Shuttle and Tesla Cybertruck size comparison

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NASA Illustration: SpaceX Crew Dragon approaches the International Space Station for docking

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The remainder of the crew’s time in orbit was spent carrying out nearly 40 science experiments and research, including some that sought to better understand space adaptation syndrome — a type of microgravity-specific motion sickness.

Gillis, a trained violinist, also brought her instrument along for the mission and delivered a rendition of “Rey’s Theme” from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

Gillis’ music was sent back to Earth using SpaceX’s Starlink as a test of the satellite network’s potential to provide in-space connectivity.

Menon also took time to read a book she coauthored — called “Kisses From Space” — to her family as well as a group of patients from St. Jude Children’s Hospital as part of a fundraiser.

Sunday’s anticipated return marks the conclusion of the third trip to space for the specific Crew Dragon capsule powering the Polaris Dawn mission.

The spacecraft — named “Resilience” by the NASA astronauts onboard its first trip to space in November 2020 called (Crew-1) — flew the 2021 Inspiration 4 mission.

That trip, also funded by Isaacman, saw him and three crewmates circle Earth for three days as part of a fundraiser for childhood cancer research.

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SpaceX crew completes first commercial spacewalk

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Crew Dragon

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The Last Dragon

SpaceX has produced the final capsule of the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft

An important announcement was made on SpaceX’s official X account on December 31, 2024.

The last, fifth, capsule of the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft has been assembled. No new capsules will be produced. SpaceX currently has a fleet of 5 operational ships. Their reusability resource should be enough for about 60 flights. Currently, each ship is certified for 5 flights, but the certification process for up to 15 flights of each ship is underway. At the same time, the 4 ships that have already flown have completed 3 to 5 successful flights and have largely exhausted their initial certification resource. SpaceX announced back in March 2022 that it would not produce any new ships. But NASA (clearly realizing that the developers of the alternative ship from Boeing are not doing well, and there is a high probability that Starliner will not be used at all) insisted on producing a fifth, backup capsule. And now it is ready. Now it is definitely the last one.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft is considered partially reusable. Because one of its sections — an unpressurized cylindrical trunk — is not reused. Before entering the atmosphere, it separates from the manned capsule and “destroyed” (but as we know, this is a conditional term, and a significant number of fragments from certain spacecraft sent into the atmosphere to burn actually reach the surface, although most often it is the ocean surface, but fragments of the trunk from Crew Dragon have already been found in Australia). This cargo compartment is manufactured anew for each flight. But its cost is small. Although, it is important. In addition to the fact that it is capable of delivering large oversized cargo to the ISS, such as solar panels, it itself is a solar battery for the Crew Dragon spacecraft, and also acts as a payload adapter for the second stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and four stabilizers are located on it for more stable behavior of the ship and the launch vehicle in dense layers of the atmosphere. Therefore, the production of unpressurized luggage compartments for Crew Dragon will be active until the last flight of this type of ship. And the SpaceX plant in Hawthorne (California), which produced these ships, will be busy with their repair and interflight maintenance. Plus, the development of a special ship for deorbiting the ISS in 2031 has already begun, and this ship will inherit a lot from the SpaceX Dragon family — manned and cargo. The plant’s employees will have something to do. No layoffs or layoffs are planned for now.

The most important thing in this news is that the Crew Dragon spacecraft has already been declared obsolete. It is being replaced by the manned Starship, which has not yet completed a single full-fledged orbital flight (all previous tests were conducted on an open suborbital trajectory), but it is this statement that demonstrates the company’s confidence that the development process is going well, and the first manned flight can happen relatively soon. This year, the return of the first prototype of the ship to the clutches of Mechazilla is promised — just as the Super Heavy booster was recently caught, the ship with astronauts will be caught in flight. No one has done this yet, but for as long as SpaceX has existed, it has been demonstrating completely unprecedented solutions and technologies.

Source: https://astroreview.blogspot.com/2025/01/TheLastDragon.html

Author: Andrey Klimkovsky

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Синдром SANS: с чем столкнулся участник космического полёта Polaris Dawn?

Один из четырёх членов экипажа туристического космического полёта Polaris Dawn столкнулся с синдр... Читать дальше »

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A little while ago, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft concluded its Crew-8, or SpaceX Crew-8, mission for NASA by landing without problems. On board were astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who had reached the International Space Station on March 5, 2024, and were part of Expedition 70/71/72. The four of them finished the 8th regular crewed mission of SpaceX in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida. The Crew Dragon departed the Station about 34 hours earlier.

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NASA Releases 2025 Commercial Crew Plan

NASA’s Commercial Crew office released its high-level plan for 2025 today. It has few surprises, with two SpaceX Commercial Crew missions, and offers the slightest of updates for Boeing’s Starliner program and holds out the possibility of a Starliner flight next year. SpaceX Commercial Crew Flights in 2025 Crew 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 on September 28, 2024 Photo: Charles Boyer…

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SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission for Two Stranded Astronauts on ISS

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission for Two Stranded Astronauts on ISS #astronautsstrandedISS #BarryWilmore

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SpaceX lança missão para resgatar astronautas da Starliner

Cabo Canaveral, Flórida, Estados Unidos, 29 de setembro de 2024 – Agência de Notícias  Reuters – A SpaceX lançou neste sábado (28) uma missão crucial para resgatar dois astronautas que permaneceram na Estação Espacial Internacional (ISS) após o retorno antecipado da cápsula Starliner da Boeing no início deste mês, devido a preocupações de segurança. A nave Crew Dragon da SpaceX decolou do…

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Weekly output: Google agrees to California news deal, Starliner astronauts to get a SpaceX ride home

Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week. 8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid ‘Link Tax’ Mandate, PCMag Three bits of context that I’m glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have…

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SpaceX to Move Crew Dragon Splashdowns to the West Coast: A New Era in Astronaut Returns

In a significant shift for future missions to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX has announced that its Crew Dragon splashdowns will be moving to the U.S. West Coast following multiple incidents involving space debris. This decision marks a pivotal change in the logistics of astronaut returns, moving away from the Atlantic Ocean and potentially concluding the era of East Coast…

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