Crew Dragon Demo-2 was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on May 30, 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station in the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and the first ever operated by a commercial provider. Demo-2 was also the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since STS-4 in 1982. Demo-2 completed the validation of crewed spaceflight operations using SpaceX hardware and received human-rating certification for the spacecraft, including astronaut testing of Crew Dragon capabilities on orbit.
Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.
On May 30, in the year 2020, Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of May 30, one of 466 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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- This event took place on May 30, 2020 (AD era).
- It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
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