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Crew Dragon restored US crew launches in 2020

Demo-2 carried two NASA astronauts to the station from Florida SpaceX launched Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station in May 2020, the first crewed orbital flight from US soil since the shuttle retired in 2011. The capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico that August. Crew Dragon became the first commercial vehicle certified to fly NASA crews on routine missions. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Demo-2 carried two NASA astronauts to the station from Florida. The figure is taken from NASA Science, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.