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Dragon 2

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Dragon
…Dragon configuration was supplanted by Dragon 2, which has two variants, Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon. Crew Dragon can carry up to seven astronauts. An uncrewed demo Crew Dragon docked with the ISS in March 2019. The first Crew Dragon 2 flight with two astronauts, Demo-2, launched in May 2020,…
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…Dragon configuration was supplanted by Dragon 2, which has two variants, Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon. Crew Dragon can carry up to seven astronauts. An uncrewed demo Crew Dragon docked with the ISS in March 2019. The first Crew Dragon 2 flight with two astronauts, Demo-2, launched in May 2020,…
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International Space Station
…new American crew capsule, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, had its first flight to the ISS in 2020. Prior to Crew Dragon, all astronauts used Soyuz spacecraft to reach the ISS. Crew Dragon carried four astronauts to the station, and the ISS was then able to accommodate a crew of seven. A…
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…new American crew capsule, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, had its first flight to the ISS in 2020. Prior to Crew Dragon, all astronauts used Soyuz spacecraft to reach the ISS. Crew Dragon carried four astronauts to the station, and the ISS was then able to accommodate a crew of seven. A…
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