Th Crew-1 mission is the primary operational mission launched from U.S. soil for the reason that Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. In Might of final yr, a pair of NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, spent about two months on the space station in a flight designed to check how SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft would function.

As soon as that mission was accomplished efficiently, NASA proceeded with the Crew-1 flight with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover in addition to Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.