SpaceX Crew-7
Launch Complex 39A with the Crew-7 astronauts aboard | |
Names | USCV-7 |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | SpaceX |
COSPAR ID | 2023-128A |
SATCAT no. | 57697 |
Mission duration | 199 days, 2 hours and 20 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Endurance |
Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
Manufacturer | SpaceX |
Launch mass | 12,519 kg (27,600 lb) |
Landing mass | 9,616 kg (21,200 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 26 August 2023, 07:27:27 |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1081.1) |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | SpaceX |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | MV Megan |
Landing date | 12 March 2024, 09:47 UTC |
Landing site | Gulf of Mexico |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Harmony zenith[3] |
Docking date | 27 August 2023, 13:16 UTC |
Undocking date | 11 March 2024, 15:20 UTC |
Time docked | 197 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes |
SpaceX Crew-7 mission patch (L-R) Borisov, Mogensen, Moghbeli and Furukawa |
SpaceX Crew-7 was the seventh crewed operational NASA
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, one JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and one Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. Mogensen was the first non-American to serve as a pilot of Crew Dragon.[4]
Crew
Position[5][6] | Astronaut | |
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Spacecraft commander | Jasmin Moghbeli[7], NASA Expedition 69 / 70 First spaceflight | |
Pilot | ESA Expedition 69 / 70 Second spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 1 | Satoshi Furukawa, JAXA Expedition 69 / 70 Second spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 2 | Konstantin Borisov[9][10], Roscosmos Expedition 69 / 70 First spaceflight |
Position | Astronaut | |
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Spacecraft commander | Matthew Dominick[11], NASA | |
Pilot | Michael Barratt[11], NASA | |
Mission Specialist 1 | Jeanette Epps[11], NASA | |
Mission Specialist 2 | Alexander Grebenkin[12], Roscosmos |
Mission
The seventh SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program launched on 26 August 2023.[1][2] The European segment of the mission is called Huginn, named after the raven from Norse mythology of the same name.[13]
One week after the arrival of
Crew-8, Crew-7 undocked from the ISS, returning to Earth by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida on March 12, 2024.[14]
Gallery
SpaceX Crew-7
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Crew-7 astronauts prior to launch
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Launch Complex 39Ain Florida
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Crew Dragon Endurance after splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico
References
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- ^ "Космонавт Борисов отправится на МКС на американском корабле" [Cosmonaut Borisov will travel to the ISS on an American spacecraft]. РИА Новости (in Russian). 26 July 2022. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
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