The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX. After using it for ground tests to...

2010 and launched a stripped-down version of the Dragon capsule. This Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit had initially been used as a ground test bed to...

to rendezvous and berth the Dragon capsule with the ISS where the ISS crew unloaded its payload and reloaded the spacecraft with cargo for return to Earth...

payload. A Dragon spacecraft demonstration flight followed in December. Starting in 2012, SLC-40 became the primary launch site for the Dragon cargo vehicle...

launch. Flight 1, Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit — June 4, 2010, first flight of Falcon 9 and first test of Dragon, Flight 3, Dragon C2+ — first cargo...

June 2010 with the Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit, using a mockup of the Dragon spacecraft. The first operational Dragon spacecraft was launched in...

1. Apollo 4, first uncrewed test flight of the Saturn V Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests Falcon Heavy test flight...

of the Merlin and Draco rocket engines that power the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft. Impulse Space designs and manufactures orbital transfer vehicles...

used boilerplate units on the initial launches of new launch vehicles. The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate unit launched to orbit...

#CrewDragon spacecraft. This is one of the final major tests before @Commercial_Crew astronauts will fly to the @Space_Station aboard the spacecraft: https://go...

Crew-7 mission and was included in the prime crew of the American spacecraft Crew Dragon (SpaceX Crew-8 mission), which launched to the ISS on 4 March 2024...

activities. These included the first test flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply spacecraft, which is intended to resupply the International Space Station...

Integrated Antares rocket Launch of A-ONE Antares in flight Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit "Display: Simulated Cygnus Payload 2013-016D". NASA. 27 April...

in the Atlantic Ocean. After completion of its test series, a Crew Dragon spacecraft made its first operational Commercial Crew Program flight, SpaceX...

space was to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft as an Expedition 29/Expedition 30 crew member, launching in November 2011...

focused on the development and delivery of hyperspectral products and the qualification of the hyperspectral payload in space. PRISMA is an Earth observation...

as Dragon XL, is planned to supply the Gateway. Dragon XL is a version of the Dragon spacecraft, to be launched by the Falcon Heavy. Unlike Dragon 2 and...

versatile spacecraft. Each of the five planned PTD missions consist of a 6-unit (6U) CubeSat with expandable solar arrays. Flight qualification and demonstration...

separate from the spacecraft just before atmospheric reentry. Upon atmospheric entry, the lifting body shape will decelerate the spacecraft to subsonic speed...

for the Artemis program, since it will be used to transport the Dragon XL spacecraft to the Lunar Gateway. It was also selected to launch the first two...

rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft. Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab has recovered...

India on Ax-4". SpaceNews. Retrieved 6 August 2024. "Russian military spacecraft". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 1 February 2025. "Planned Russian Space Launches"...

Vehicle, originally Ariane Transfer Vehicle or ATV, was an expendable cargo spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), used for space cargo transport...

process. In addition to engine testing, after splashdown and recovery, Dragon spacecraft make a stop at McGregor to have their dangerous hypergolic propellant...

Mars. Starship's two stages are the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. Both stages are equipped with Raptor engines, the first flown and mass-produced...

During ISS Expeditions 4 through 6, Caldwell Dyson served as an ISS spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) inside Mission Control. In 2003, she made a transition...

on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to transport astronauts to the ISS from the last Shuttle flight until the launch of the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission in May...

Russian Soyuz spacecraft until 2020 when NASA’s Commercial Crew Program became operational with regular launches of SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop SpaceX...

the 24th mission of the Resolute (24th Colonist Group), an interstellar spacecraft carrying selected families and civilians to colonize the Alpha Centauri...

system in service since 1996 and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. Its fire-and-forget design features automatic...