SpaceX Demonstration Mission-1 Highlights

Demonstration Mission-1 (Demo-1) was an uncrewed flight test designed to demonstrate a new commercial capability developed under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission began March 2, when the Crew Dragon launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and racked up a number of “firsts” in less than a week. • First commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket to launch from American soil on a mission to the space station. • First commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft to dock with the space station. • First autonomous docking of a U.S. spacecraft to the International Space Station. • First use of a new, global design standard for the adapters that connect the space station and Crew Dragon, and also will be used for the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s future mission to the Moon. NASA and SpaceX teams gathered in the early morning hours at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, to follow the spacecraft’s return journey and ocean splashdown.