SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 (2020)

On 30 May 2020, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercially developed crewed spacecraft to reach orbit, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. The mission ended a 9-year gap in US human spaceflight capabilities following the Space Shuttle retirement and demonstrated that private companies could operate orbital spacecraft safely. It opened the era of commercial human spaceflight and NASA's Commercial Crew Programme.