SpaceX Crew-3

SpaceX Crew-3 will be the third operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the fourth overall crewed flight for NASA. The mission is currently planned for launch on 31 October 2021. At a NASA briefing held on 2 May 2021, Steve Stich, program manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said Crew-3 will use a new Crew Dragon which was later found to be Crew Dragon Endurance. Thus it's the first time rookie astronauts are flying on a dragon that is itself a rookie, or simply, first such astronauts on a new dragon.

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