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SpaceX Dragon
Witness the launch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule, May 25, 2012
Dragon on recovery ship SpaceX Dragon at the International Space Station
Learn about SpaceX, the first private company in history to send a spacecraft, which it named Dragon, to the International Space Station
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SpaceX Dragon
SpaceX Dragon Dragon capsule by SpaceX docking with the International Space Station on May 25, 2012—the first time a commercial spacecraft did so.

Dragon

spacecraft
Also known as: SpaceX Dragon
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Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Dragon, privately developed spacecraft built by the American corporation SpaceX and the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit. The first of two test flights was launched on December 8, 2010, and the second test flight, which carried cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched on May 22, 2012. The first crewed flight launched on May 30, 2020, and carried astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS. Dragon has a...

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