SpaceX Dragon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-26

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00:01:36 1 Name
00:02:00 2 History
00:02:32 2.1 NASA ISS resupply contract
00:02:42 2.1.1 Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
00:04:00 2.1.2 Commercial Resupply Services Phase 1
00:06:54 2.1.3 Commercial Resupply Services Phase 2
00:07:53 2.1.4 Demonstration flights
00:09:59 2.1.5 Returning research materials from orbit
00:11:06 2.1.6 Operational flights
00:11:47 2.1.7 Reuse of previously-flown capsules
00:14:54 2.2 Crewed development program
00:15:47 2.2.1 NASA Commercial Crew Development program
00:19:12 3 Development funding
00:19:39 4 Production
00:20:43 5 Variants and Derivatives
00:20:53 5.1 Dragon CRS
00:23:43 5.2 DragonLab
00:24:55 5.3 Dragon 2
00:25:44 5.4 Red Dragon
00:27:19 6 List of missions
00:27:36 7 Specifications
00:27:45 7.1 DragonLab
00:30:04 7.2 Radiation tolerance
00:30:43 8 See also
00:31:03 8.1 Comparable vehicles



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Dragon is a reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company. Dragon is launched into orbit by the company's Falcon 9 two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle.
During its maiden flight in December 2010, Dragon became the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit. On 25 May 2012, a cargo variant of Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with and attach to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX is contracted to deliver cargo to the ISS under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program, and Dragon began regular cargo flights in October 2012. With the Dragon spacecraft  and the Orbital ATK Cygnus, NASA seeks to increase its partnerships with domestic commercial aviation and aeronautics industry.On 3 June 2017, the CRS-11 capsule, largely assembled from previously flown components from the CRS-4 mission in September 2014, was launched again for the first time, with the hull, structural elements, thrusters, harnesses, propellant tanks, plumbing and many of the avionics reused while the heat shield, batteries and components exposed to sea water upon splashdown for recovery were replaced.SpaceX has developed a second version called Dragon 2, which includes the capability to transport people. Flight testing is scheduled to complete in the first half of 2019 with the first flight of astronauts, on a mission contracted to NASA, scheduled to occur later the same year.