News Updates for SpaceX Crew Dragon

Date	Location	Source	Headline	Activity
14th October	ISS/Florida Coast	NASA/SpaceX	NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Undocking: ....view. Return/Splashdown: ....view.	Three NASA astronauts and a European flier boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville to close out a 170-day mission. With Crew 4 commander Kjell Lindgren and co-pilot Bob Hines monitoring cockpit displays, flanked by Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the Crew Dragon “Freedom” undocked from the Harmony module’s upper port at 12:05 p.m. EDT and slowly backed away.
6th October	International Space Station	NASA	NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Mission: Approach and Docking: ....view.	SpaceX’s four-person Dragon Endurance crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station Thursday, delivering U.S., Japanese, and Russian crew members to the complex and replacing four astronauts scheduled to conclude their long-duration science mission next week The crew capsule glided to an automated docking with the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module at 5:01 p.m. EDT (2101 GMT) Thursday, completing a 29-hour transit from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
5th October	Kennedy Space Center, Florida	NASA	NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Mission: Launch: ....view.	Two NASA astronauts, a veteran Japanese space flier, and the first Russian cosmonaut to launch on a U.S. spacecraft since 2002 soared into orbit Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in what could signal an easing of tension between NASA and the new leadership of the Russian space agency. The four-person crew took off from pad 39A at Kennedy at 12:00:57 p.m. EDT (1600:57 GMT) Wednesday, two days later than previously scheduled due to delays caused by Hurricane Ian, which struck Florida last week.
10th May	----	Ex Terra	SpaceX training begins this month for first commercial spacewalk mission.	The four-person crew who will fly on the all-private Polaris Dawn mission — set to include the first commercial spacewalk and the debut of SpaceX’s extravehicular spacesuit — will begin training this month for their ride on a Dragon spacecraft to an altitude more than three times higher than the International Space Station. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire businessman and pilot commanding the Polaris Dawn mission, said in a recent interview that the crew would begin training after SpaceX completed a busy stretch of crew rotations to and from the space station.
5/6th May	ISS	NASA/SpaceX	NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 Mission: Undocking: ....view. Return: ....view.	Three NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency mission specialist left the International Space Station early Thursday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. The mission, designated Crew-3, was the first flight of SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft, the third of four human-rated Dragon capsules in SpaceX’s fleet. The splashdown of the Endurance spacecraft at 12:43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT) Friday capped a 176-day mission for NASA commander Raja Chari, pilot Tom Marshburn, mission specialist Kayla Barron, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
27th April	Kennedy Space Center, Florida	NASA	NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Mission: Launch: ....view. Crew-4's on-orbit tour of Freedom Dragon spacecraft: ....view. Approach & Docking: ....view.	Four astronauts rocketed into a clear predawn sky early Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding SpaceX’s newest Dragon spacecraft — named “Freedom” — to kick off a planned four-and-a-half month science expedition at the International Space Station. Commander Kjell Lindgren, flanked by Pilot Bob “Farmer” Hines and mission specialists Samantha Cristoforetti and Jessica Watkins, took off from historic pad 39A at the Florida spaceport at 3:52:55 a.m. EDT (0752:55 GMT) Wednesday. After a copybook coast & docking phase in record time SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked with the International Space Station at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT)
25/26th April	ISS	Axiom Space	Axiom’s private astronauts depart space station after 15-day stay:....view. SpaceX capsule returns to Earth with first all-private space station crew....view.	A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four non-professional astronauts, the first fully commercial, non-government crew to visit the International Space Station, undocked from the outpost Sunday to close out an extended 17-day mission. The SpaceX crew capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Georgia Monday with a retired NASA astronaut and three wealthy businessmen.
8/9th April	Kennedy Space Center, Florida	Axiom Space	First-of-its-kind commercial astronaut mission heads for space station: Launch: ....view. Inflight Update: ....view. Approach and Docking: ....view.	Strapped in the seats of a SpaceX crew capsule, a retired NASA astronaut and three wealthy paying passengers rocketed into orbit Friday from the Kennedy Space Center on the first fully commercial mission to the International Space Station. The commercial crew mission, managed by a Houston-based company named Axiom Space, is slated to last 10 or 11 days. The flight is the first mission to travel to the space station as part of a purely commercial venture. All previous space station missions have been government-led or contracted by a government space agency.
16th February	----	Ex Terra	Polaris Dawn Mission Announced by Jared Isaacman....view.	Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4, has announced the Polaris Dawn Mission, part of the Polaris Program which is a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities. The program will consist of up to three human spaceflight missions that will demonstrate new technologies, conduct extensive research, and ultimately culminate in the first flight of SpaceX’s Starship with humans on board.