Crew Dragon Endurance (serial number C210) is the third operational SpaceX Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. It first launched on 11 November 2021 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. It has subsequently been used for the Crew-5 mission launched in October 2022 and the Crew-7 mission launched in August 2023. It is scheduled to next operate the private Fram2 spaceflight mission in 2025. The capsule was named in honor of the SpaceX and NASA teams who worked to build the spacecraft during the COVID-19 pandemic and Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
| Crew Dragon Endurance | |
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 Crew Dragon Endurance during rollout to pad 39A in October 2022. | |
| Type | Space capsule |
| Class | Dragon 2 |
| Eponym | Endurance |
| Serial no. | C210 |
| Owner | SpaceX |
| Manufacturer | SpaceX |
| Specifications | |
| Dimensions | 4.4 m × 3.7 m (14 ft × 12 ft) |
| Power | Solar panel |
| Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 |
| History | |
| Location | Cape Canaveral, Florida, being refurbished for Fram2 mission |
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| Last flight |
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| Flights | 3 |
| Flight time | 532 days, 14 hours, 59 minutes |
| Dragon 2s | |
History
editOn 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 will be called Endurance.[1] Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica[2] and was found during the Crew-3 mission.[3]
Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Flights
editList includes only completed or currently manifested missions. Dates are listed in UTC, and for future events, they are the earliest possible opportunities (also known as NET dates) and may change.
| Flight No. | Mission and Patch | Launch | Landing | Duration | Remarks | Crew | Outcome |
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| 1 | Crew-3 
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11 November 2021, 02:03:31 | 6 May 2022, 04:43:23 | 176 days, 2 hours, 39 minutes | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
| 2 | Crew-5 
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5 October 2022, 16:00:57 | 12 March 2023, 02:02 | 157 days, 10 hours, 1 minute | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 68 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
| 3 | Crew‑7 
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26 August 2023, 07:27:27 | 12 March 2024, 09:47 | 199 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 69/70 crew to the ISS. | Success | |
| 4 | Fram2 (patch) | March 2025 | TBA | 3–5 days (planned) | Fully private, all-civilian orbital flight. First crewed mission ever launched into Polar Orbit.[4] | Planned |
Gallery
edit- Crew Dragon Endurance Gallery
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Endurance splashdown to the Atlantic Ocean after the end of the Crew-3 mission
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References
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- ^ "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic". BBC News. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ Berger, Eric (12 August 2024). "SpaceX announces first human mission to ever fly over the planet's poles". Ars Technica. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
External links
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Media related to Crew Dragon Endurance at Wikimedia Commons
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