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

Dragon, also known as Dragon 1 or Cargo Dragon, was a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space...

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

2010, carrying a dummy payload qualification unit. SLC-40 was the primary launch facility of the original SpaceX Dragon, a reusable automated cargo vehicle...

recovery Flight 1, Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit — 4 June 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...

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

of the Merlin and Draco rocket engines that power the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft. The company develops in-space transportation services for satellites...

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...

#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...

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

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...

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

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

to launch this year. SpaceX launched Axiom Mission 3 aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on 18...

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...

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...

Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. On 30 May 2020, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken became the first astronauts to launch on a private crewed spacecraft, Crew Dragon. The youngest...

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...

need to design a second stage interstage unit that would have had to carry the weight of the Orion spacecraft with it. In January 2008, NASA Watch revealed...

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

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

thereby mission success, while lowering operating cost for SpaceX. Dragon spacecraft, following use on a space mission, splashdown and recovery, are shipped...

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...

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...

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

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

2 spacecraft was launched in February 2023. These satellites are referred to as "Mini" because they are smaller than the full-sized Gen 2 spacecraft that...

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