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.
Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endurance lift off from Launch Complex 39A with the Crew-7 astronauts aboard
(L-R) Borisov, Mogensen, Moghbeli and FurukawaCommercial Crew Program← SpaceX Crew-6SpaceX Crew-8 → Crew Dragon flights← Axiom Mission 2Axiom Mission 3 →
Crew-7 astronauts prior to launch
Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endurance vertical on Launch Complex 39A in Florida
The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) provides commercially operated crew transportation service to and from the International Space Station (ISS) under contract to NASA, conducting crew rotations between the expeditions of the International Space Station program. American space manufacturer SpaceX began providing service in 2020, using the Crew Dragon spacecraft, and NASA plans to add Boeing when its Boeing Starliner spacecraft becomes operational no earlier than 2025. NASA has contracted for six operational missions from Boeing and fourteen from SpaceX, ensuring sufficient support for ISS through 2030.
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Crew Dragon C204 (right), later destroyed during testing
Commercial Crew Program vehicles docked to ISS at the same time
Image: Crew Dragon at the ISS for Demo Mission 1 (cropped)