SpaceX DM-1 (Demonstration Mission 1)

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon on Demo-1, the first orbital test flight of the crew-rated Dragon 2 spacecraft, carrying a test dummy named Ripley to the ISS under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The capsule docked autonomously and splashed down six days later.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

13.3 T (est.)

Flight

13th

of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights

Date and time

2 March 2019, 07:49 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Builder

SpaceX

Launch site

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Payload

Test Flight

International designator

2019-011

Launches in 2019

13th of 102

See it in orbit

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Object pages on Space Atlas: Crew Dragon Demo-1

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