Dragon, known as Dragon 1 or Cargo Dragon, was a class of partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company.
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26 Facts About SpaceX Dragon
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SpaceX Dragon was launched into orbit by the company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle to resupply the International Space Station .
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On 25 May 2012, a cargo variant of SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with and attach to the ISS.
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Also in 2006, SpaceX won a contract to use the Dragon space capsule for commercial resupply services to the International Space Station for the American federal space agency, NASA.
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The Dragon space capsule was a part of SpaceX's proposal, submitted to NASA in March 2006.
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On 23 February 2009, SpaceX announced that its chosen phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator heat shield material, PICA-X, had passed heat stress tests in preparation for Dragon's maiden launch.
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In summer 2009, SpaceX Dragon hired former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox as vice president of their new Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance Department, in preparation for crews using the spacecraft.
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On 24 February 2016, SpaceNews disclosed that SpaceX Dragon had been awarded a further five missions under Commercial Resupply Services Phase 1.
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The first SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched on its first mission – contracted to NASA as COTS Demo Flight 1 – on 8 December 2010, and was successfully recovered following re-entry to Earth's atmosphere.
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SpaceX Dragon conducted orbital tests of its navigation systems and abort procedures, before being grappled by the ISS' Canadarm2 and successfully berthing with the station on 25 May 2012 to offload its cargo.
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SpaceX Dragon returned to Earth on 31 May 2012, landing as scheduled in the Pacific Ocean, and was again successfully recovered.
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On 23 August 2012, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that SpaceX Dragon had completed all required milestones under the COTS contract, and was cleared to begin operational resupply missions to the ISS.
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SpaceX Dragon was launched on its first operational CRS flight on 8 October 2012, and completed the mission successfully on 28 October 2012.
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In 2006, Elon Musk stated that SpaceX Dragon had built "a prototype flight crew capsule, including a thoroughly tested 30-man-day life-support system".
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In 2009 and 2010, Musk suggested on several occasions that plans for a crewed variant of the SpaceX Dragon were proceeding and had a two-to-three-year timeline to completion.
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SpaceX Dragon submitted a bid for the third phase of CCDev, CCiCap.
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In 2014, SpaceX released the total combined development costs for both the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and the Dragon capsule.
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NASA provided US$396 million while SpaceX Dragon provided over US$450 million to fund both development efforts.
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For typical missions, SpaceX Dragon is planned to remain berthed to the ISS for about 30 days.
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Successor of Dragon called SpaceX Dragon 2 has been developed by SpaceX, designed to carry passengers and crew.
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SpaceX undertook several U S Government contracts to develop the Dragon 2 crewed variant, including a Commercial Crew Development 2 - funded Space Act Agreement in April 2011, and a Commercial Crew integrated Capability - funded space act agreement in August 2014.
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On 27 April 2016, SpaceX announced its plan to go ahead and launch a modified Dragon lander to Mars in 2018.
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On 27 March 2020, SpaceX revealed the Dragon XL resupply spacecraft to carry pressurized and unpressurized cargo, experiments and other supplies to NASA's planned Lunar Gateway under a Gateway Logistics Services contract.
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SpaceX Dragon uses a "radiation-tolerant" design in the electronic hardware and software that make up its flight computers.
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