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Crew Dragon carries astronauts to orbit
From SpaceX and the New Commercial Space Race: From Falcon 1 to Starship
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Human Spaceflight
Crew Dragon carries astronauts to orbit
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched on Demo-2, the first crewed orbital flight by a commercially built and operated spacecraft.
NASA/Bill Ingalls Demo-2 restored human orbital launches from the United States after the Space Shuttle’s retirement and validated the system ahead of regular crew rotations. NASA later certified Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon as the first commercial human spaceflight system for operational missions.
