SpaceX Crew Dragon Launches - Everything you need to know!

I think it’s about time to cover SpaceX Crew Dragon Launches. This video will explain everything you need to know including details on the upcoming Crew Dragon demo flight, followed of course by the crewed flights coming up shortly thereafter this year. There is a lot to cover here; not only with the missions themselves but also on the astronauts scheduled to fly that historic first mission. We’ll also explore some of the awesome safety systems incorporated into Crew Dragon and get a little more in depth about why SpaceX are not planning on actually reusing these vessels more than once for crewed NASA missions.

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[MarcusHouse]

Hi everyone! I'm very interested to know what you think about the decision to use brand new Crew Dragons for each crewed NASA mission. Will SpaceX reuse the vehicles in some other way outside cargo missions?. I’d love to know what you think about this particular topic as I’ve not found a great deal of information around this. Thanks as always for watching and for your awesome support. Love you all!

[novafawks]

If Elon(or others) doesn't refer to astronauts on the Crew Dragon capsule as "Dragon Riders" I'm going to be so angry

[exoplanets]

Just discovered your channel and.. I love it!

[kleeblattchen]

It's somehow a bit funny how well NASA cares about safety here with SpaceX's vehicles… I mean personally I would actually be more scared of flying with a space shuttle than flying on the Crew Dragon Demo flight…

[kurtjensen]

Thank you very much. I truly enjoyed your presentation and pushed your subscriber button. Love anything and everything you got on space X

[spacious]

I think doing a ksp realism overhaul demo mission of the crewed dragon variant and docking to a space station would be an awesome video

[jasonjenkins]

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[pvalpha]

I think the problem is the super-dracos and salt-water immersion. When NASA axed propulsive landing they basically condemned the dracos to being immersed in ocean water. Now I can imagine that SpaceX might revisit this if the damage is what I suspect it to be - since everything was designed around dry-up landing and water landing was an emergency option. There was also a problem with the ablative heat shield and landing feet, but that might be a more easily solved engineering problem. So what we will likely see is crew dragon's being refurbished into cargo dragons for the first few... then SpaceX creating a mark II upgrade that puts a different heat-shield design and landing feet on the refurb (since it has to be torn down to the structure anyway after salt water exposure) and them using that for non-NASA crew missions (such as maybe some suborbital tourism where the re-entry specs aren't as bad). Don't forget, Starship replaces Dragon completely. But I can imagine a larger Starship II that has a 15m-20m diameter that actually carries a redesigned dragon or three as escape pods.

[-ragingpotato-]

It wouldnt surprize me if SpaceX uses reused crew dragon capsules for cargo deliveries and begins practicing propulsive landings with those. It would be a good way to show off their capabilities and iron out unexpected problems without risking anybody and without mayor extra effort from their part.

[pyrofania]

Great video Marcus!
Keep to good up the good work:)
Love this new format:)

[Human-]

Perhaps they simply use a fresh dragon for crewed launches and reuse them for cargo missions only.

[jimb]

It would be interesting to see the crew dragon re-purposed for cargo missions and recovered propulsively at Cape Canaveral. It seems a logical step in building confidence in preparation for future Starship Missions.

[KnightRanger]

One thing I remember reading is that after the experimental launches, the crew dragon could stay docked to the ISS for up to 6 months. The current contract calls for 2 certification orbital flights (1 unmanned, 1 manned) and 6 long term missions.

I can imagine that some of the eight dragons made for these flights would receive some modifications and continue to be used for cargo to the ISS.

Since the Crew Dragon was designed to take 7 individuals into space although the missions contracted with NASA would only carry up to three, some other Crew Drangons might have extra seats installed (up to 4) after the NASA contract mission and be used for space tourism.

I would not expect major changes inside except for the addition or removal of seats, and it could be that the cargo version might retain the seats to allow it to serve as an additional "lifeboat" for the ISS crew.

[tamhewitt-baker]

I just know my heart will be in my mouth when they go up.

[boberthim]

Good coverage. Nice editing. Keep it up

[Tabletoptactician]

The choice to not do propulsive landing was SpaceX's, not NASA's. NASA was fine with it, just would have required extra certification of the heat shield to have deployable legs. So SpaceX decided to just use parachutes instead of going through with the lengthy and costly certification, since in case of an abort parachutes would have to be on the vehicle anyways.

[genericyoutube]

Most of that cloud isn't smoke, its mostly water vapor from the deluge system

[SofieBrink]

Thanks for the video Marcus!
Really interesting!
(Happy to have helped)

[techalpha]

Amazing, well informed videos. Keep it up!

[Nowhereman]

There is one more big demo flight you forgot to mention that needs to occur after the DM-1 for SpaceX that has to go without a hitch before crew flight can fly: an in-flight abort test that has to happen between them. If that gets delayed, or something goes wrong, no crewed flight.