Crew Dragon Endurance
Crew Dragon Endurance is the third operational SpaceX Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. It first launched on 11 November 2021 to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. It has subsequently been used for the Crew-5 mission launched in October 2022, the Crew-7 mission launched in August 2023, and the Crew-10 mission in March 2025. The capsule was named in honor of the SpaceX and NASA teams who worked to build the spacecraft during the COVID-19 pandemic and Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
History
On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 would be called Endurance. Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica and was found during the Crew-3 mission.Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Flights
List includes only completed or currently manifested missions. Dates are listed in UTC, and for future events, they are the earliest possible opportunities and may change.| Flight No. | Mission and Patch | Launch | Landing | Duration | Remarks | Crew | Outcome |
| 1 | Crew-3 | 11 November 2021, 02:03:31 | 6 May 2022, 04:43:23 | Long-duration mission. Ferried four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS. | | Thomas MarshburnNowrap| |