SpaceX Crew-1
Resilience docked to the International Space Station. | |
| Names |
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|---|---|
| Mission type | ISS crew transport |
| Operator | SpaceX |
| COSPAR ID | 2020-084A |
| SATCAT no. | 46920 |
| Mission duration | 167 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes, 16 seconds |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Resilience |
| Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
| Manufacturer | SpaceX |
| Launch mass | 12,519 kg (27,600 lb) |
| Landing mass | 9,616 kg (21,200 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 4 |
| Members | |
| Expedition | Expedition 64/65 |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | November 16, 2020, 00:27:17 UTC (November 15, 7:27:17 pm EST) |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 B1061-1 |
| Launch site | Kennedy, LC‑39A |
| End of mission | |
| Recovered by | MV GO Navigator |
| Landing date | May 2, 2021, 06:56:33 UTC (2:56:33 am EDT) |
| Landing site | Gulf of Mexico, near Panama City, Florida (29°44′50″N 85°59′03″W / 29.747238°N 85.984145°W) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Harmony forward |
| Docking date | November 17, 2020, 04:01 UTC |
| Undocking date | April 5, 2021, 10:30 UTC |
| Time docked | 139 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes |
| Docking with ISS (relocation) | |
| Docking port | Harmony zenith |
| Docking date | April 5, 2021, 11:08 UTC |
| Undocking date | May 2, 2021, 00:35 UTC |
| Time docked | 26 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes |
| NASA (left), SpaceX (middle), and JAXA (right) mission patches From left: Walker, Glover, Hopkins and Noguchi | |
SpaceX Crew-1 (also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1) was the first operational crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011. Resilience launched on November 16, 2020, at 00:27:17 UTC on a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), carrying NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, all members of the Expedition 64 crew. The mission was the second overall crewed orbital flight of the Crew Dragon.
Crew-1 was the first operational mission to the International Space Station (ISS) 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. The mission was scheduled to depart the ISS on April 28, 2021, but due to weather returned to Earth on May 2, 2021. The capsule splashed down at 06:56:33 UTC, to be reused on Inspiration4. It was the first nighttime splashdown for NASA astronauts since Apollo 8 in 1968. On February 7, 2021, the Crew-1 broke the record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. crewed vehicle, surpassing the 84-day mark set by an Apollo capsule on the final flight to the Skylab (Skylab-4) space station on February 8, 1974.