SpaceX Demo-2

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:22:45

Saturday May 30, 2020

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Launch Notes

SpaceX's first crewed mission. First American crewed flight since 2011.

SpaceX Demo-2

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NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The launch was a demonstration mission to certify SpaceX for regular crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. After a 19 hour coast, Crew Dragon “Endeavour” arrived at and docked to PMA-2, located on the Harmony Module on the US side of the International Space Station. SpaceX Demo-2 docked to the IDA-2 port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station on 31/05/2020 at 14:27 UTC. Its stay was 62 days and was undocked on 01/08/2020 at 23:35 UTC. It splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on 02/08/2020 at 18:48 UTC. This marked the first time crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, and the first crew splashdown in 45 years.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$69.75 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.7m

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 22,800 kg

GTO: 8,300 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,607 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


86th

Mission

8th

Mission of 2020

SpaceX


94th

Mission

8th

Mission of 2020

2020


37th

Orbital launch attempt