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The trunk remains attached to dragon until shortly before reentry into earth's atmosphere.
Crew dragon evolved from an earlier design, called dragon 1, which launched 20 times on missions to deliver cargo to the iss between may 2012 and march 2020. The crew dragon spacecraft will use its superdraco engines during a launch abort scenario to propel both the capsule and its trunk away from the in addition to carrying astronauts to space for nasa, spacex's dragon spacecraft can also carry private passengers to earth orbit, the iss or beyond. In the new commercial crew model, spacex retains ownership and operational control of its spacecraft, meaning anyone with enough cash the spacex crew dragon spacecraft and falcon 9 rocket sit in the hangar with two sooty falcon 9 first stage boosters that were recovered after a launch. ← back to model page.
