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SpaceX Crew-7
Mission Profile
| Launch date | 2023-08-26 |
|---|---|
| Launch site | Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
| Launch vehicle | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1081.1) |
| Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Endurance (C210) |
| Target | Low Earth Orbit |
| Type | Crewed |
| End date | 2024-03-12 |
| Recovery | MV Megan, Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida |
| Duration | 199 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes |
| Partners | NASA, SpaceX, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos |
Overview
NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 marked the first time a Crew Dragon lifted off with its four seats filled by four different space agencies. NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli commanded, with ESA's Andreas Mogensen as pilot — the first non-American to fly that seat — alongside JAXA's Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. Riding Dragon Endurance atop the maiden flight of Falcon 9 booster B1081 on 26 August 2023, the quartet docked with the International Space Station the next morning to begin an increment spanning Expeditions 69 and 70. In late September, Mogensen took command of the station — the first Dane to do so — while on 1 November Moghbeli and NASA's Loral O'Hara conducted a 6-hour-42-minute spacewalk to replace a bearing assembly on a solar array rotary joint. The crew supported scientific research ranging from ESA's Huginn experiment programme to human physiology and Earth-observation studies, and hosted the all-European Axiom Mission 3 in January 2024. Endurance undocked on 11 March 2024 and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida the following day, closing out 199 days, 2 hours and 19 minutes in space and the third flight of the Endurance capsule.
Crew
Jasmin Moghbeli
Commander
NASA; first spaceflight; U.S. Marine Corps test pilot
Andreas Mogensen
Pilot
ESA (Denmark); second spaceflight; first non-American Crew Dragon pilot and commander of ISS Expedition 70
Satoshi Furukawa
Mission Specialist
JAXA; second spaceflight
Konstantin Borisov
Mission Specialist
Roscosmos; first spaceflight, flying under the NASA–Roscosmos seat-exchange agreement
Key Milestones
2023-08-26
Liftoff from LC-39A at 07:27 UTC on the first flight of Falcon 9 booster B1081
2023-08-27
Dragon Endurance docked with the International Space Station
2023-09-26
Andreas Mogensen assumed command of the ISS for Expedition 70, the first Danish station commander
2023-11-01
Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara performed a 6 h 42 min spacewalk to replace a solar array rotary joint bearing assembly
2024-03-11
Endurance undocked from the ISS at 15:20 UTC
2024-03-12
Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola after 199 days in space
Key Achievements
First Crew Dragon mission with four crew members from four different space agencies (NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos)
Andreas Mogensen became the first non-American Crew Dragon pilot and the first Danish commander of the ISS (Expedition 70)
Moghbeli and O'Hara's 1 November 2023 spacewalk serviced the station's solar array rotary joint hardware
Completed a 199-day increment spanning Expeditions 69 and 70 and hosted the all-European Axiom Mission 3
Legacy & Significance
Crew-7 showcased the Commercial Crew Program's maturation into a genuinely international transportation system: a single Dragon carrying NASA, ESA, JAXA and Roscosmos crew at the height of post-2022 geopolitical strain demonstrated that the ISS partnership's integrated crew-exchange machinery still functioned. Mogensen's turn as pilot and then station commander deepened ESA's operational role in commercial spaceflight, and the mission's quiet, six-and-a-half-month routine — research, spacewalks, visiting-vehicle traffic — exemplified the cadence that Crew Dragon had made unremarkable barely three years after Demo-2.
