Crew Dragon 2

Built & Operated By
SpaceX
Commercial · founded 2002
Maiden Flight
2 MAR 2019
Flight Life
Able to fly for up to one week of free flight or two years docked.
About
Crew Dragon 2 is capable of lifting four astronauts, or a combination of crew and cargo to and from low Earth orbit. Its heat shield is designed to withstand Earth re-entry velocities from Lunar and Martian spaceflights.
Spacecraft Specifications
Height
7.2 m
Diameter
3.7 m
Crew Capacity
4
Payload Capacity
6,000 kg
Rating
Human-rated
Capability
Crew Flights to ISS or Low Earth Orbit
Operational History
Crew Dragon 2 is a spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company based in Hawthorne, California. Dragon is launched into space by the SpaceX Falcon 9 two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle. It is one of two American Spacecraft being develeoped capable of lifting American Astronauts to the International Space Station. The first crewed flight, launched on 30 May 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station in the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the US since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and the first ever operated by a commercial provider.