Names USCV-8
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator SpaceX
COSPAR ID 2024-042A
SATCAT no. 59097
Mission duration 235 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes
Distance travelled 100 million mi (160 million km)
Orbits completed 3,760
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Crew Dragon Endeavour
Spacecraft type Crew Dragon
Manufacturer SpaceX
Crew
Crew size 4
Members
Matthew Dominick
Michael Barratt
Jeanette Epps
Alexander Grebenkin
Expedition Expedition 70/71/72
Start of mission
Launch date 4 March 2024, 03:53:38 UTC (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST)
Rocket Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1083.1), Flight 305
Launch site Kennedy, LC‑39A
End of mission
Recovered by MV Megan
Landing date 25 October 2024, 07:29:02 UTC (3:29:02 am EDT)
Landing site Gulf of Mexico, near Pensacola, Florida (29°48′40″N 87°33′25″W)
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.65°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Harmony forward
Docking date 5 March 2024, 08:00 UTC
Undocking date 2 May 2024, 12:57 UTC
Time docked 58 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes
Docking with ISS (relocation)
Docking port Harmony zenith
Docking date 2 May 2024, 13:46 UTC
Undocking date 23 October 2024, 21:05 UTC
Time docked 174 days, 7 hours and 19 minutes

To make way for a Boeing Starliner as a part of the planned 6 May 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test that would dock to the forward port of Harmony, the crew relocated Crew Dragon Endeavour to the zenith port of Harmony on 2 May 2024, docking to the zenith port at 13:46 UTC. After several delays, Starliner docked on 6 June 2024. Boeing Starliner Calypso successfully launched on 5 June 2024 and docked to the forward port of Harmony on 6 June.

Crew-8 undocked from the ISS on 23 October 2024 at 21:05 UTC. After a completing 3,760 orbits and traveling nearly 100 million miles (160 million kilometers), Endeavour began its entry back into the Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, near Pensacola, Florida on 25 October 2024 at 07:29:02 UTC (3:29:02 am EDT, local time at the landing site).

During the parachute deploy sequence it was observed that the opening of main parachute was delayed. Addtionally drouge debris strikes were observed.

The capsule taken aboard the recovery ship MV Megan. After the crew exited the spacecraft, they were taken into the ship's onboard medical treatment facility for evaluations. After that check-up, NASA flew all of the crew members to the Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola by helicopter for additional evaluation. One astronaut was hospitalized, but NASA declined to provide the individual's condition or identity. NASA said that the entry and splashdown was normal and the recovery of the crew and the spacecraft was without incident. The astronaut was released from the hospital the following day and was said to be in "good health".

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.

Crew-8 was the eighth SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission launched at 3:53:38 UTC on 4 March 2024 (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST, local time at the launch site). SpaceX sent the 50th astronaut on this Crew Dragon launch.

The first launch attempt, the day prior was scrubbed at T−03:25:38 due to elevated winds in offshore areas of the flight path.