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SpaceX Dragon 1 C106

By Htam
SpaceX Dragon 1 C106

@ Cape Canaveral, FL

September 2021

On display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the actual Dragon spacecraft used in May 2012 to visit the International Space Station, the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to/from the ISS. C106 was the sixth production Dragon capsule, and also the first used SpaceX Dragon capsule to be reflown into space. This vehicle was retired after three flights totaling 97 days in orbit. The Dragon 1 fleet was retired in March 2020, all subsequent supply missions use the cargo-carrying variant of the SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft.


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