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With CRS-23, ( C208) and Inspiration4 ( Resilience), three Dragon spacecraft were in space at the same time, from 16 to 18 September 2021 (UTC).ĭragon IMU align and configure for launch.Ĭrew walk out of Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout BuildingĬrew transportation to Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) by Tesla Model X with "RECYCLE" license plate Īs preparation for the launch of Starliner, the Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to ISS at Harmony forward port for its Crew-2 mission was undocked at 10:45 UTC and relocated to Harmony zenith port on 21 July 2021, at 11:36 UTC. It was the second mission by Thomas Pesquet to the International Space Station and was named Alpha, after Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, following the French tradition to name space missions after stars or constellations. Akihiko Hoshide served as the second Japanese ISS commander during his stay. McArthur used the same seat on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour in this mission which her husband, Bob Behnken, used on the Demo-2 mission. Īll crew members were veteran astronauts, though this was Megan McArthur's first visit to the ISS (as her first spaceflight was STS-125, a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope). This mission was the first with astronauts on board with a previously used booster launch vehicle. The Crew Dragon Endeavour (C206), docked to the International Docking Adapter (IDA) on the Harmony module at its forward port.
The second SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program launched on 23 April 2021.
German astronaut Matthias Maurer was the backup for Pesquet, while Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa trained as backup to Hoshide. On 28 July 2020, JAXA, ESA and NASA confirmed their astronaut assignments aboard this mission.