An almost unnoticed development: at 119 days, DEMO-2 was the longest duration crewed US mission ever outstripping the Skylab SL-4 mission (the third crew, who were up for 80-something days). The shuttle never spent more than a month in orbit; the only longer duration US astronaut flights were launched on Soyuz.
The next-but-one Crew Dragon flight is also due to reuse this one's capsule and first stage, making it only the second reusable crewed space vehicle ever to fly anywhere, after the US space shuttle (while the USSR launched Buran once, it flew without anybody aboard and never made a second flight).
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Date: 2020-08-03 04:20 pm (UTC)The next-but-one Crew Dragon flight is also due to reuse this one's capsule and first stage, making it only the second reusable crewed space vehicle ever to fly anywhere, after the US space shuttle (while the USSR launched Buran once, it flew without anybody aboard and never made a second flight).