Demo-2 SpaceX ISS mission return. Crew Dragon capsule of a SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft being recovered at the end of the Demo-2 mission. The Demo-2 test flight, part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, was the first to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on a commercially built and operated spacecraft. The manned spacecraft was launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA on 30 May 2020. Photographed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, USA, on 2 August 2020.