Which SpaceX mission launched the first crewed Crew Dragon flight to the ISS?

SpaceX Demo-2 launched the first crewed Crew Dragon flight to the ISS. The mission lifted off on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. It was SpaceX’s crewed flight test under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Demo-2 docked with the ISS on May 31 and helped validate Crew Dragon’s life-support, navigation, docking, and crew operations. The mission was originally planned as a short test flight, but the astronauts stayed for about two months and supported the station’s Expedition 63 crew. They returned to Earth on August 2, 2020, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.

The mission is often confused with Crew-1, which was the first operational Crew Dragon mission after certification. Demo-1 came earlier but was uncrewed, while Boeing’s Crew Flight Test involved a different spacecraft and company. Demo-2 was also the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, restoring crewed launches from American soil.