News Updates for SpaceX Crew Dragon

Date	Location	Source	Headline	Activity
10/11th November	----	NASA	NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 Mission: Launch: ....view. Coast: ....view. Approach & Docking: ....view.	After a sky-lighting Florida launch on Wednesday 10th from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:03 p.m. EST, four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule began chasing down the International Space Station (ISS). On Thursday, November 11 at 6:32 p.m. EST, SpaceX’s Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station.
8th November	----	NASA	NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 Returns Home: Undocking and Space Station Flyaround of Crew Dragon....view. Crew-2 Mission Return....view.	Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station, with four astronauts aboard: Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The Crew Dragon fired its thrusters for a 360-degree flyaround of the space station, making it the first spacecraft to do so since the space shuttle. After 199 days in space, the longest-duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft, Dragon and the Crew-2 astronauts, Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet, returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 10:33 p.m. EST on November 8.
6th November	----	SFN	Astronauts in final training....view.	NASA and SpaceX decided Friday to bring four space station astronauts back to Earth Monday (8th November) to close out a 199-day mission, pressing ahead with re-entry and splashdown two days before the planned launch of their replacements Wednesday aboard another Crew Dragon spacecraft.
18th October	----	SFN	Astronauts in final training....view.	The four astronauts set to blast off Oct. 30 to the International Space Station visited Cape Canaveral over the weekend for a test run inside SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft, one of the last training events before they return to Florida on launch week.
8th October	----	SFN	Astronauts choose ‘Endurance’ as name for new SpaceX crew capsule....view.	The astronauts who will ride SpaceX’s newest Dragon spaceship into orbit later this month said Thursday they named their spacecraft “Endurance” as a tribute to the human spirit and a historic sailing vessel used by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
7th October	----	SFN	NASA swaps two astronauts from Boeing missions to SpaceX crew flight....view.	NASA has reassigned two rookie astronauts from missions on Boeing’s troubled Starliner crew capsule to a SpaceX crew mission to the International Space Station late next year, a move agency officials said will allow the astronauts to gain spaceflight experience for future lunar expeditions.
6th October	----	SFN	SpaceX is adding two more Crew Dragons to its fleet....view.	SpaceX is about to double the size of its fleet of Crew Dragon spaceships. The company is debuting a new spacecraft for a NASA launch later this month, and is building a fourth human-rated capsule that should be ready for flight early next year, a SpaceX official said Wednesday.
19th September	----	SPX	SpaceX Dragon C207 Resilience (Inspiration 4)....spashdown.	Four civilian space travelers rode a SpaceX capsule through a blazing re-entry back into Earth’s atmosphere Saturday evening and safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Cape Canaveral, completing a historic 71 hours in space as the first privately-funded, non-government crew to fly in orbit.
16th September	Pad 39A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida	SPX	SpaceX Dragon C207 Resilience (Inspiration 4) ....launch. ....flight update.	With the backing of a billionaire businessman 38-years old Jared Isaacman, commander on this mission, four private citizens blasted off Wednesday night from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a first-of-its-kind fully commercial three-day spaceflight aboard a SpaceX crew capsule, riding to an altitude higher than any person has flown in two decades. The other crew members are Sian Proctor, 51-year old professor at an Arizona community college who serves as the mission’s pilot, Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Chris Sembroski, a 42-year-old data engineer from the Seattle area who works for Lockheed Martin. Note: SpaceX Dragon C207 Resilience has been modified for this mission with the removal of the docking mechanism replacing it with a cupola.
1st May	-----	NAS/SPX	Crew-1 Mission - Hatch Closing ....view. Undocking and Departure ....view. Return & Splashdown (live) ....view.	SpaceX and NASA are targeting Saturday, May 1 at 8:35 p.m. EDT, or 00:35 UTC on May 2, for Dragon to autonomously undock from the International Space Station (ISS) and splashdown off the coast of Florida on Sunday, May 2 at approximately 2:57 a.m. EDT, 6:57 UTC, completing its first six-month operational mission to the Station.
25th April	-----	TES	A 2021 SpaceX Odyssey: Dragon aces third astronaut launch, docks with space station ....view.	Early on Saturday morning, SpaceX Crew Dragon ‘Endeavour’ (capsule C206) – carrying four international astronauts – flawlessly docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time in less than a year.
24th April	International Space Station	NAS	NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Docking ....view.	Crew-2 mission astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive at the ISS.
23rd April	Pad 39A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida	NAS	NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Launch ....launch. ....coast. ....highlights.	Crew-2 mission astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive in orbit after a copybook launch on a F9 rocket.
18th April	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida	NAS	Astronauts and Launch Teams Rehearse for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Launch....view.	Early this morning, Sunday, April 18, Crew-2 mission astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, completed a countdown dress rehearsal of the launch day events.
13th April	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida	NAS	SpaceX Crew-2 Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Mission to Space Station....view.	NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and  Megan McArthur, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, entered their official quarantine period beginning Thursday, April 8, in preparation for their flight to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission. They will lift off at 6:11 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 22, aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, carried by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
5th April	International Space Station	SFN	SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule swaps docking ports on space station....view.	In the home stretch of nearly a half-year on the International Space Station, four astronauts suited up and rode their SpaceX-owned Crew Dragon “Resilience” spaceship to a new docking port outside the orbiting research lab Monday, a first-of-its kind maneuver for the new generation of commercial crew spaceships.
1st February	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Pad SLC-39A	SPX	SpaceX to Launch Ispiration4 Mission to Orbit....view.	SpaceX is targeting no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year for Falcon 9’s launch of Inspiration4 – the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit – from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SPX = SpaceX....view. SFN = Space Flight Now....view. NAS = Nasa....view. NSF = Nasa Space Flight....view. TES = Teslarati....view. Key Dates in yellow