SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission, the first operational mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, sent four astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station for NASA. The mission lifted off on Nov. 14, 2020, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It returned to Earth with a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on May 2, 2021. You can see the latest updates here.
Here, the Crew-1 astronauts, including NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, pose in front of their Dragon capsule during crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Aug. 14, 2020. Click through this gallery to see more photos of the Crew-1 mission.
