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Launch from LC-39A
A Falcon 9 carrying Crew Dragon Endeavour lifted off from historic LC-39A in Florida.
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Return of crewed launches from US soil
Crew Dragon separated from the second stage, reached orbit and opened its forward trunk cover.
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Rendezvous and docking with ISS
After roughly 19 hours of free flight, Endeavour autonomously docked with the Harmony module of the International Space Station.
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Two months aboard the station
Behnken and Hurley worked aboard the station as members of Expedition 63 and helped prepare the transition to regular Crew Dragon flights.
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Endeavour departed the station, reentered the atmosphere and safely splashed down with both astronauts in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read the chapterDemo-2 was the first crewed flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched from LC-39A, docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth after roughly two months.
Key facts
- The first crewed Crew Dragon launch and the first crewed launch from Florida since the Space Shuttle era ended in 2011.
- The astronauts named their spacecraft Endeavour after the Space Shuttles both had previously flown.
- Demo-2 was not a routine crew rotation but the final end-to-end test before system certification.
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Sources & further reading
- First crewed launch, crew, objectives and return to US human spaceflight.
- Launch of Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon from LC-39A on 30 May 2020.
- Safe return of Behnken and Hurley on 2 August 2020.
- NASA mission patch and file-level public-domain statement.
Spaceflightpedia. (n.d.). Crew Dragon Demo-2 — first crewed flight. Retrieved 9 October 2026, from https://spaceflightpedia.com/article/crew-dragon-demo-2
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