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Re:Crew Dragon Docks with ISS by yellowapple on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:52AM (#23370319)
Was the full crew necessarily just to put things in orbit? My impression was that most of the crew was doing other sorts of science and such because they might as well do so while the Shuttle's out in space (and later to get as many people into the ISS as possible per trip, which the Crew Falcon should now be able to do - maybe not to the same degree as the Shuttle, but certainly to a better degree than Soyuz).
Re:Crew Dragon Docks with ISS by bkanber on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:24PM (#23372867)
Most shuttle missions had 5-7 crew members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_crews

At minimum, each mission had a commander and pilot. Then there were missions specialists and payload specialists, which depended on the specific mission the shuttle was carrying out.

There's always a lot of work to do, so it makes sense that they'd maximize for productivity.