Transport & space · 2020

Crew Dragon

The first commercially built spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit.

Demo-2 flew Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS on 30 May 2020, the first crewed orbital launch from the US since 2011. Crew Dragon now flies NASA rotations and private missions. It ended sole reliance on Soyuz for station crew transport.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Reusable orbital rocket 2015
International Space Station 1998

What it led to 1

Permanent lunar base ~2035

Watch

Crew Demo-2 | LaunchSpaceX · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Objects launched into space Latest: 4.51k per year (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Payloads in low Earth orbit Latest: 14.5k objects (2025) Source: Our World in Data