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SpaceX Crew-1 [6] [7] (was also known as USCV-1 or simply Crew-1) [8] was the first operational [b] crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the maiden flight of the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. It was also the second crewed orbital flight launch by the United States since that of STS-135 in July 2011.
On 1 May 2020, SpaceX successfully demonstrated the Mark 3 parachute system, a critical milestone for the mission approval. [37] Crew Dragon Demo-2 marked the first crewed United States spaceflight mission not to include the presence of the public at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [38]
On 30 May 2020, the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission was launched to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the first time a crewed vehicle had launched from the U.S. since 2011, and the first SpaceX commercial crewed launch to the ISS. [259]
Following a first attempt on Wednesday that was scrubbed due to inclement weather, Elon Musk's company partnered with NASA to launch its first crewed mission, a test flight called Demo-2, on Saturday.
On 30 May 2020, SpaceX launched two NASA astronauts (Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken) into orbit on a Crew Dragon spacecraft during SpaceX Demo-2, making SpaceX the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and marking the first crewed launch from American soil in 9 years.
SpaceX scrubbed Demo-2's first launch attempt because of weather conditions. The Demo-2 mission successfully launched on 30 May 2020. [13] [14] Hurley and Behnken's launch was the first to carry a crew to the International Space Station from the United States since STS-135 in July 2011. [13]
"These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars," Musk said, adding if those landings go well, his space company will launch its first crewed flights to Mars in four ...
Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin ... If the long drought between crewed launches from U.S. soil after NASA’s shuttles stood down in 2011 and before the first crewed Falcon 9 flew ...