Space milestone
First crewed flight of the Falcon 9 (Demo-2)
May 30, 2020
On May 30, 2020, a Falcon 9 launched the Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the ISS — the Falcon 9's first crewed flight and the first crewed orbital launch from U.S. soil since the Space Shuttle's retirement in 2011.