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It's a dragon spacecraft, but with configuration for crew. Hence Crew Dragon
by mikejb 8y ago
It's a dragon spacecraft, but with configuration for crew. Hence Crew Dragon
- Klathmon 8y agoTo explain a bit more, this is "Dragon 2", the second (major) version of SpaceX's capsule. It has multiple configurations, one for crew, one for cargo, and possibly others. This launch was significant as it was the first time they sent the crew configuration up as a demo and had it do automated docking procedures to dock (the old dragon had a more complex and manual docking procedure). For simplicity sake, they tend to refer to this one as "Crew Dragon" to signify that it's in the crew configuration.
- huhtenberg 8y agoYet, it was actually redone nearly from scratch and only remotely related to the cargo Dragon.