SpaceX's CRS-21 launched the first upgraded Cargo Dragon under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract, carrying nearly 3,000 kg of cargo to the ISS on a Falcon 9 booster making its first NASA flight after prior commercial use. It was also the first time two Dragon capsules were docked at the station together.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 44th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 2020, 16:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2020-093
- Launches in 2020
- 102nd of 114
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