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USCV-1 (US Crew Vehicle-1), also known as SpaceX Crew Dragon-1 and abbreviated as Crew-1 or Crew-One, will be the first crewed operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and its third overall orbital flight. As of April 2020, the mission is expected to launch in August 2020 and transport four members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station.

Crew
Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover were announced as the crew on 3 August 2018. A Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and a third NASA astronaut, Shannon Walker were added on 31 March 2020 to the crew.

Crew notes
Glover will become the first African-American astronaut to live aboard the ISS, this honor was originally set to go to NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps who was scheduled to launch aboard Soyuz MS-09 in June 2018, serving as flight engineer on Expedition 56/57, although she was removed from the flight with no official reason given before launch.

Mission
This mission was initially announced in November 2012, that it would be launching in November 2016. In late March/April 2013, it was announced that the launch would be delayed by one year to November 2017. As of April 2020, the missions launch date is expected to be August 2020.

The USCV-1 launch is meant to involve a docking to the Node 2 Forward port using an ISS Docking Adapter (IDA) attached to PMA-2. This launch involves four crew members, one of them being Russian in order to allow for rotation on the ISS. When prepping for this launch, they make sure to create a backup in the form of a Soyuz spacecraft. When it is time to rotate crews after about six months, USCV-2 will begin prepping for launch.