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Names | USCV-8 |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | SpaceX |
COSPAR ID | 2024-042A |
SATCAT no. | 59097![]() |
Mission duration | 183 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, 2 seconds (in progress) 180 days (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Crew Dragon Endeavour |
Spacecraft type | Crew Dragon |
Manufacturer | SpaceX |
Crew | |
Crew size | 4 |
Members | |
Expedition | Expedition 70 / 71 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 4 March 2024, 03:53:38 UTC (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST)[1][2] |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1083.1) |
Launch site | Kennedy, LC‑39A |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | MV Megan or MV Shannon |
Landing date | September 2024 (planned) |
Landing site | Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.65° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Harmony forward[3] |
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)[a] | |
Docking port | Harmony zenith |
Docking date | 2 May 2024, 13:46 UTC |
Undocking date | September 2024 (planned) |
Time docked | 123 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes (in progress) |
![]() SpaceX Crew-8 mission patch ![]() From left: Grebenkin, Barratt, Dominick and Epps |
SpaceX Crew-8 is the eighth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission launched on 4 March 2024.
The Crew-8 mission transports four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). Three NASA astronauts, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and one Roscosmos cosmonaut, Alexander Grebenkin, were assigned to the mission. Jeanette Epps was previously assigned to Boeing Starliner missions.[4][5]
The Crew-8 mission has been extended to accommodate problems encountered by the Boeing Crew Flight Test during its mission. Crew-8 will undock after Crew-9 docks, which will be no earlier than September 24, 2024, and the Crew-8 capsule will be outfitted to accommodate two extra astronauts if an emergency occurs prior to Crew-9 docking.[6]
Crew-8 will dock to the forward-facing port of the Harmony module
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