Commercial crewed spacecraft (Crew Dragon)
Nave comercial tripulada (Crew Dragon)
- Date
- 2020 · confidence high
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States
- Credited to
- SpaceX and NASA (Demo-2, 30 May 2020, with Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
The first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit and the ISS, restoring to the United States the capability lost after the Space Shuttle. It launched human spaceflight as a commercial service.
What it led to
- Orbital space tourism (Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn with the first private spacewalk in 2024)
- The end of dependence on Soyuz
- Commercial space stations
Built on
- International Space Station (ISS)1998
- Reusable orbital rocket (Falcon 9)2015
- reusable Falcon 9 rocket
- Apollo capsule
- Cargo Dragon
Made possible
- orbital space tourism
- commercial stations