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Crew Dragon Resilience (Dragon C207) is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX and built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. In November 2020, it was launched into orbit to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-1 mission.
With crew prompting, Resilience docked autonomously to the station at 04:01 UTC on 17 November 2020, or Day 2 of the mission, marking the first operational docking of a Crew Dragon and the first operational docking of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission carried four additional members of Expedition 64 to the three already on station.
Facts & Figures about Crew Dragon Resilience (Dragon C207)
Falcon 9 B1061 first launched Crew-1 to the ISS in November 2020, the first operational flight of Crew Dragon. Following landing on drone ship following the Crew-1 flight, this first stage went on to complete additional missions.
It became the first booster to fly crew twice as well as the first reused booster to fly crew as a part of the Crew-2 mission.
Starship is a fully-reusable and super heavy-lift rocket made out of stainless steel, in development by SpaceX. Both of its stages – Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft – contain liquid oxygen and liquid methane.
Starship's main features are its very high payload mass capability and low potential operating cost. The spacecraft tanker variant can refuel other Starships in orbit, increasing its 100 t (220,000 lb) transport range to higher energy orbits and destinations, including the Moon and Mars. Other Starship variants can deploy satellites, serve space tourists, and are optimised for lunar landings. Starship's potentially low cost is key in enabling SpaceX's Mars ambitions as well as making point-to-point rocket travel on Earth possible.
