Launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2

Crew Dragon Demo-2 was the first crewed flight of SpaceX's Dragon 2 spacecraft, carrying the NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station. It was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and was the first time astronauts had been launched from American soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. It was also the first orbital crewed flight by a commercial company. The capsule, which the crew named Endeavour, docked with the station the next day, and the astronauts stayed for about two months before returning to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico. The mission opened the way for regular commercial crew flights to the station.

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