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- NASA is moving fast to plan new missions to the ISS using the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
- Crew Dragon will be departing from the ISS soon, and NASA will then be able to certify it and use the hardware whenever it needs.
- There are currently two future Crew Dragon missions planned, one for later this year and the second for early 2021.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the first spacecraft produced as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program to actually carry astronauts into space, is still attached to the International Space Station today, but that's not stopping the space agency from planning its future Crew Dragon missions. In an announcement today, NASA revealed the four-member crew of Crew-2, the third crewed flight of SpaceX's high-tech capsule.
The mission, which is slated to launch sometime in the spring of 2021, will including NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur as well as Akihiko Hoshide of the Japanese space program JAXA and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. That's double the number of passengers as NASA's Demo-2 mission, and matches the number of astronauts that will be traveling to the ISS on Crew-1, the first operational Crew Dragon mission, planned for September.
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