Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacecraft

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is designed to transport up to four astronauts for NASA missions, along with critical cargo and supplies, to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The Crew Dragon features solar arrays affixed to the side of the spacecraft’s trunk, a launch escape system that will allow crew members to escape an anomaly at any point during flight, a large hatch and windows and a redesigned outer mold line to enhance crew comfort. The inaugural uncrewed flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, known as Demo-1, is scheduled to launch March 2, 2019 on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. The uncrewed flight is an important step in returning human launches on American rockets and spacecraft to the space station from U.S. soil since 2011.