Earth on March 8, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.

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The mission will be a critical test of the capsule. SpaceX has been flying robotic cargo craft to the station since 2012, but Crew Dragon is designed to carry humans. NASA will be watching the capsule's performance closely as part of its ongoing evaluation of the spacecraft before giving it the green light to carry humans.

If the upcoming mission is successful, SpaceX will send the capsule on one more uncrewed flight before NASA schedules its first flight with two astronauts aboard.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon was developed in partnership with NASA to help the space agency end its reliance on Russian rockets and space capsules to take its astronauts to the spaceNo. 5,584,422 issued to Bond-Madsen on Dec. 17, 1996 discloses a combination backpack and chair cover which includes a plurality of interconnected panels capable of being folded and secured together in a first position, where panels form a backpack, and opened into a second position, where the interconnected panels are configured to form a chair cover.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,573,155 issued to Sadler on Nov. 12, 1996 discloses a backpack assembly including a backpack and a pad assembly removably secured to the backpack. The panel assembly includes a first portion pivotally secured to a second portion such that the pad assembly may be moved from a first position to a second position. In its first position, the first portion overlies the second portion and both are secured to the