SpaceX Crew-4 was the
Crew Dragon's fourth
NASACommercial Crew operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 27 April 2022 at 07:52
UTC[6] before docking with the
International Space Station (ISS) at 23:37 UTC. It followed shortly after the private
Axiom 1 mission to the ISS earlier in the month utilizing SpaceX hardware. Three American (NASA)
astronauts and one
European (ESA) astronaut were on board the mission.[7][8][9]
Crew-4 was the
maiden flight of the
Crew Dragon spacecraft named
Freedom, named such by the crew because it "celebrates a fundamental
human right, and the industry and innovation that emanate from the unencumbered human spirit".[10] The
booster used on this mission was the B1067, which makes it the first Commercial Crew mission to use a booster on its fourth flight (it previously was used to launch
SpaceX Crew-3 in 2021).[11]
The mission duration was 170 days.[4] The
European part of the mission was called Minerva,[16] named after the
Roman goddess of wisdom,[17] and it was European astronaut Cristoforetti's second mission to the ISS.
^NASA (2022).
"Crew-4 Mission Overview"(PDF). NASA. p. 1. Retrieved 27 April 2022. Crew-4 is scheduled for a long duration stay of up to six months aboard station conducting science and maintenance before returning to Earth in the fall of 2022.
^Wall, Mike (14 October 2022).
"SpaceX's Crew-4 mission leaves space station and heads for home". space.com. Retrieved 14 October 2022. Crew-4's Dragon capsule, named Freedom, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday (Oct. 14) at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT)
^European Space Agency (3 March 2022).
"Minerva patch explained". European Space Agency. Retrieved 28 April 2022. Inspired by the Roman goddess of wisdom, the handicrafts and the arts, the name Minerva is a homage to the competence and sophisticated craftmanship of the men and women all over the world who make human spaceflight possible.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Cubesats are smaller. Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).