17+ Spacex Dragon 2 Capsule Interior Images. The orion capsule can support six astronauts for up to 2 weeks in a completely depressurized environment. The dragon capsule, also known as the pressurized section, allows for the transport of people as well as environmentally sensitive cargo.
After thursday night's glitzy debut of the capsule spacex is planning to use to send nasa astronauts to and from the international space station. The spacex dragon 2 is a class of reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by american aerospace manufacturer spacex as the successor to dragon, a reusable cargo spacecraft. After the big reveal, musk told reporters that the cost of flying seven astronauts to the.
It seats seven comfortably and could be flying soon.
A full video of the presentation is embedded below, and i strongly recommend watching it. The three space station residents kept cameras trained on the incoming capsule for the benefit of flight controllers at spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california, and nasa's johnson space center in houston. Externally the spacecraft looks like a more rounded, fenestrated version of the current dragon capsule. Spacex dragon crew departs for earth frominternational space center 63 days later two american astronauts will return from space | 45 years later the spacex capsule landed in the gulf of.