Crew Dragon launch overview

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The American private space company SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon space capsule as part of the Commercial Crew Program. This spacecraft can carry several astronauts to the International Space Station ISS and is also used for commercial space flights in which people spend some time in orbit. Each Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched into space using a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX and can be reused multiple times. Learn all about the different manned spaceflights with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX thanks to this overview! 

Launch overview Crew Dragon

Mission Date
launch		 Date
landing		 Capsule Launch base Mission Crew Patch
Demo-1 02/03/2019 08/03/2019 C205.1 Kennedy Space
Center		 Unmanned
test flight
  • Uncrewed
 Demo-1
Demo-2 30/05/2020 02/08/2020 Endeavour Kennedy Space
Center		 Manned test flight
  • Douglas Hurley (USA)
  • Robert Behnken (USA)
 Demo-2
Crew-1 16/11/2020 02/05/2021 Resilience Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Michael Hopkins (USA)
  • Victor Glover (USA)
  • Soichi Noguchi (Japan)
  • Shannon Walker (USA)
 Crew Dragon
Crew-2 23/04/2021 09/11/2021 Endeavour Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • R. Shane Kimbrough (USA)
  • K. Megan McArthur (USA)
  • Akihiko Hoshide (Japan)
  • Thomas Pesquet (France)
 Crew-2
Inspiration4 16/09/2021 18/09/2021 Resiliance Kennedy Space
Center		 Commercial
spaceflight
  • Jared Isaacman (USA)
  • Sian Proctor (USA)
  • Hayley Arceneaux (USA)
  • Christopher Sembroski (USA)
 Inspiration4
Crew-3 11/11/2021 29/04/2022 Endurance Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Raja Chari (USA)
  • Thomas Marshburn (USA)
  • Kayla Barron (USA)
  • Matthias Maurer (Germany)
 Crew Dragon
Axiom Mission 1 08/04/2022 18/04/2022 Endeavour Kennedy Space
Center		 Commercial
ISS mission
  • Michael López-Alegría (USA)
  • Larry Connor (USA)
  • Eytan Stibbe (Israel)
  • Mark Pathy (Canada)
 Axiom Mission 1
Crew-4 21/04/2022 14/10/2022 Freedom Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Kjell N. Lindgren (USA)
  • Robert Hines (USA)
  • Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)
  • Jessica Watkins (USA)
 Crew-4
Crew-5 05/10/2022 12/03/2023 Endurance Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Nicole Aunapu Mann (USA)
  • Josh A. Cassada (USA)
  • Koichi Wakata (Japan)
  • Anna Kikina (Russia)
 Crew-5
Crew-6 02/03/2023 04/06/2023 Endeavour Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Stephen Bowen (USA)
  • Warren Hoburg (USA)
  • Sultan Al Neyadi (United Arab Emirates)
  • Andrey Fedyaev (Russia)
 Crew-6
Axiom Mission 2 21/05/2023 31/05/2023 Freedom Kennedy Space
Center		 Commercial
ISS mission
  • Peggy Whitson (USA)
  • John Shoffner (USA)
  • Ali AlQarni (Saudi Arabia)
  • Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Arabia)
 Ax-2
Crew-7 26/08/2023 2024 Endurance Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Jasmin Moghbeli (USA)
  • Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)
  • Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)
  • Konstantin Borisov (Russia)
 Crew-7
Axiom Mission 3 17/01/2024 09/02/2024 Freedom Kennedy Space
Center		 Commercial
ISS mission
  • Michael López-Alegría (USA)
  • Walter Villadei (Italy)
  • Alper Gezeravcı (Turkey)
  • Marcus Wandt (Sweden)
 Ax-3
Crew-8 04/03/2024 25/10/2024 Endeavour Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Matthew Dominick (USA)
  • Michael Barratt (USA)
  • Jeanette Epps (USA)
  • Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
 Crew-8
Polaris Dawn 10/09/2024 15/09/2024 Resilliance Kennedy Space
Center		 Commercial
ISS mission
  • Jared Isaacman (USA)
  • Scott Poteet (USA)
  • Sarah Gillis (USA)
  • Anna Menon (USA)
 Polaris Dawn
Crew-9 28/09/2024 February 2025 Freedom Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Nick Hague (USA)
  • Aleksandr Gorbunov (Russia)
  • Barry E. Wimore (USA - landing)
  • Sunita Williams (USA - landing)
 Crew-9
Crew-10 February 2025 July 2025 / Kennedy Space
Center		 ISS mission
  • Anne McClain (USA)
  • Nichole Ayers (USA)
  • Takuya Onishi (Japan)
  • Kirill Peskov (Russia)
 Crew-10

Images: SpaceX / Inspiration4

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This article was published by FutureSpaceFlight founder and chief editor Kris Christiaens. Kris Christiaens has been passionate and fascinated by spaceflight and space exploration all his life and has written hundreds of articles on space projects, the commercial space industry and space missions over the past 20 years for magazines, books and websites. In late 2021, he founded the website FutureSpaceFlight with the goal of promoting new space companies and commercial space projects and compiling news of these start-ups and companies on one website.