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SpaceX Crew Mission 7

From left: Borisov, Mogensen, Moghbeli and Furukawa

Crew Dragon Endeavour after splashdown

Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the ISS

Names USCV-7
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator SpaceX
COSPAR ID 2023-128A
SATCAT no.57697
Mission duration 199 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Crew Dragon Endurance
Spacecraft type Crew Dragon
Manufacturer SpaceX
Launch mass 12,519 kg (27,600 lb)
Landing mass 9,616 kg (21,200 lb)
Crew
Crew size4
Members
Jasmin Moghbeli
Andreas Mogensen
Satoshi Furukawa
Konstantin Borisov
Expedition Expedition 69 / 70
Start of mission
Launch date not a number value UTC (3:27:27 am EDT)
Rocket Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1081.1), Flight 249
Launch site Kennedy, LC‑39A
End of mission
Recovered by MV Megan
Landing date 12 March 2024, 09:47 UTC (5:47 am EDT)
Landing site Gulf of Mexico, near Pensacola, Florida
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Harmony zenith
Docking date 27 August 2023, 13:16 UTC
Undocking date 11 March 2024, 15:20 UTC
Time docked 197 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes

Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endurance vertical on Launch Complex 39A in Florida

The seventh SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program launched on 26 August 2023. The European segment of the mission is called Huginn, named after the raven from Norse mythology of the same name.

One week after the arrival of Crew-8, Crew-7 undocked from the ISS, returning to Earth by splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida on March 12, 2024.

SpaceX Crew-7 was the seventh crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight and the eleventh overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission launched on 26 August 2023. The Crew-7 mission transported four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), consisting of one NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, one ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, one JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and one Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. Mogensen was the first non-American to serve as a pilot of Crew Dragon.