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Dragon was a reusable cargo spacecraft designed and launched by the American aerospace company SpaceX. The space company began developing the Dragon space capsule in late 2004 and won a contract in 2006 to use the Dragon spacecraft for commercial resupply services. The spacecraft was launched into orbit by SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle in October 2012 to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) program for the first time. On 3 June 2017, a Dragon spacecraft, largely assembled from previously flown components from the CRS-4 mission in September 2014, was launched again for the first time on CRS-11. The last flight of the first version of the Dragon spacecraft took place on March 7th, 2020 after which other resupply flights to the ISS were conducted with the Dragon 2 spacecraft. Learn all about the different Dragon commercial cargo space missions thanks to this overview! 

Dragon launch overview

Mission Date launch Date landing Capsule Launch base Time at ISS Cargo mass Patch Mission success?
SpX-1 08/12/2010 08/12/2010 C101 Kennedy Space Center / / SpX-1

Success

SpX-2 22/05/2012 31/05/2012 C102 Kennedy Space Center 5d 17h / SpX-2

Success

CRS-1 08/10/2012 28/10/2012 C103 Kennedy Space Center 17d 22h 905 kg CRS-1

Success

CRS-2 01/03/2013 26/03/2013 C104 Kennedy Space Center 22d 18h 898 kg CRS-2

Success

CRS-3 18/04/2014 18/05/2014 C105 Kennedy Space Center 27d 21h 2,089 kg CRS-3

Success

CRS-4 21/09/2014 25/10/2014 C106 Kennedy Space Center 31d 22h 2,216 kg CRS-4

Success

CRS-5 10/01/2015 11/02/2015 C107 Kennedy Space Center 29d 3h 2,317 kg CRS-5

Success

CRS-6 04/04/2015 21/05/2015 C108 Kennedy Space Center 33d 20h 2,015 kg CRS-6

Success

CRS-7 28/06/2015 In-flight explosion C109 Kennedy Space Center / 1,800 kg CRS-7

Failure

CRS-8 08/04/2016 11/05/2016 C110 Kennedy Space Center 30d 21h 3,136 kg CRS-8

Success

CRS-9 18/07/2016 26/08/2016 C111 Kennedy Space Center 36d 6h 2,257 kg CRS-9

Success

CRS-10 19/02/2017 19/03/2017 C112 Kennedy Space Center 23d 8h 2,490 kg CRS-10

Success

CRS-11 03/06/2017 03/07/2017 C106.2 Kennedy Space Center 27d 1h 2,708 kg CRS-11

Success

CRS-12 14/08/2017 17/09/2017 C113 Kennedy Space Center 31d 6h 2,910 kg CRS-12

Success

CRS-13 15/12/2017 13/01/2018 C108.2 Kennedy Space Center 25d 21h 2,205 kg CRS-13

Success

CRS-14 02/04/2018 05/05/2018 C110.2 Kennedy Space Center 30d 16h 2,647 kg CRS-14

Success

CRS-15 29/06/2018 03/08/2018 C111.2 Kennedy Space Center 32d 45m 2,697 kg CRS-15

Success

CRS-16 05/12/2018 14/01/2019 C112.2 Kennedy Space Center 36d 4h 2,573 kg CRS-16

Success

CRS-17 04/05/2019 03/06/2019 C113.2 Kennedy Space Center 27d 23h 2,482 kg CRS-17

Success

CRS-18 24/07/2019 27/08/2019 C108.3 Kennedy Space Center 30d 20h 2,290 kg CRS-18

Success

CRS-19 05/12/2019 07/01/2020 C106.3 Kennedy Space Center 29d 19h 2,617 kg CRS-19

Success

CRS-20 07/03/2020 07/04/2020 C112.3 Kennedy Space Center 28d 22h 1,977 kg CRS-20

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.