Author Topic: How hard is it to reconfigure the Crew Dragon Hatch?  (Read 507 times)

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We know of three different hatch configurations: The IDSS port to dock to ISS, the cupola for Inspiration-4 and FRAM2, and the EVA hatch for Polaris Dawn. How long does it take SpaceX to change a capsule from one configuration to another?

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We know of three different hatch configurations: The IDSS port to dock to ISS, the cupola for Inspiration-4 and FRAM2, and the EVA hatch for Polaris Dawn. How long does it take SpaceX to change a capsule from one configuration to another?

Since the same Crew Dragon flew SpaceX Crew-1 and Inspiration 4 we have an upper bound for SpaceX replacing an IDSS hatch with the Dragon Cupola of no four months or less. I suspect that changing the upper "hatch" might not have be the pacing item between Crew Dragon Resilience's first two flights.

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