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Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, primarily for flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft consists of a reuseable space capsule and an expendable trunk module. The spacecraft launches atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket and the capsule returns to Earth via splashdown. Cargo Dragon 2 supplies cargo to the ISS under a Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS) contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft are different from the crewed variant by launching without seats, cockpit controls, astronaut life support systems, or SuperDraco abort engines. Cargo Dragon 2 improves on many aspects of the original Dragon design, including the recovery and refurbishment process. The first flight of Dragon 2 in a cargo configuration launched in December 2020. Learn all about the different Dragon 2 commercial cargo space missions thanks to this overview! 

Dragon 2 launch overview

Mission Date launch Date landing Capsule Launch base Time at ISS Cargo mass Patch Video Mission success?
CRS-21 06/12/2020 14/01/2021 C208 Kennedy Space Center 35d 19h 2,970 kg CRS-21 Video

Success

CRS-22 03/06/2021 10/07/2021 C209 Kennedy Space Center 34d 5h 3,328 kg CRS-22 Video

Success

CRS-23 29/08/2021 01/10/2021 C208 Kennedy Space Center 30d 22h 2,207 kg CRS-23 Video

Success

CRS-24 21/12/2021 24/01/2022 C209 Kennedy Space Center 32d 6h 2,990 kg CRS-24 Video

Success

CRS-25 15/07/2022 20/08/2022 C208 Kennedy Space Center 33d 23h 2,600 kg CRS-25 Video

Success

CRS-26 26/11/2022 11/01/2023 C211 Kennedy Space Center 45d 14h 2,600 kg CRS-26 Video

Success

CRS-27 15/03/2023 15/04/2023 C209 Kennedy Space Center 31d 20h 2,852 kg CRS-27 Video

Success

CRS-28 05/06/2023 30/06/2023 C208 Kennedy Space Center 24d 21h 3,200 kg CRS-28 Video

Success

CRS-29 10/11/2023 / C211 Kennedy Space Center / 2;950 kg CRS-29 Video

Success

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This article was published by FutureSpaceFlight founder and chief editor Kris Christiaens. Kris Christiaens has been passionate and fascinated by spaceflight and space exploration all his life and has written hundreds of articles on space projects, the commercial space industry and space missions over the past 20 years for magazines, books and websites. In late 2021, he founded the website FutureSpaceFlight with the goal of promoting new space companies and commercial space projects and compiling news of these start-ups and companies on one website.