Crew Dragon Endurance

Crew Dragon Endurance (Dragon C210) is a Crew Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX, built and operated under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. On 11 November 2021, it was launched to transport personnel to the International Space Station as part of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission, which has become a part of ISS Expedition 66.

Endurance
Endurance at Kennedy in October 2021.
TypeSpace capsule
ClassDragon 2
EponymEndurance (1912)
Serial no.C210
OwnerSpaceX
ManufacturerSpaceX
Specifications
Dimensions4.4 m × 3.7 m (14 ft × 12 ft)
PowerSolar panel
RocketFalcon 9 Block 5
History
LocationInternational Space Station
First flight
Flights1
Flight time167 days and 22 hours
Dragon 2s

History

On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 will be called Endurance.[1] Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica[2] and was found during the Crew-3 mission.[3]

Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.

Flights
Mission Patch Launch date (UTC) Landing date (UTC) Crew Duration Remarks Outcome
Crew-3 11 November 2021, 02:03:31 UTC[4] Late April 2022
Long duration mission. Ferries four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS. Docked at ISS
Crew-5
Long duration mission. Ferries four members of the Expedition 67/68 crew to the ISS. Planned

References
  1. "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  2. "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  3. "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic". BBC News. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  4. Sempsrott, Danielle (30 October 2021). "NASA, SpaceX Adjust Next Space Station Crew Rotation Launch Date". NASA. Retrieved 30 October 2021.


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