List of all SpaceX crewed flights to space

Since 2020, SpaceX has been the leader in launching crews to space for NASA. However, NASA’s bet on turning its Commercial Crew Program winners into commercial options has paid off with several missions in the books or planned that are for entirely private customers. Here’s a list of every crewed flight from SpaceX and who flew on it.

How many crewed missions has SpaceX launched?

Since 2020, SpaceX has launched 18 crewed flights to space, 11 for NASA and seven for commercial customers.

SpaceX crewed launches at a glance

Number of crewed launches: 18 (NASA: 11, Commercial: 7)

Number of crew: 68 (Government: 48, Commercial: 20)

Destinations: ISS (15), LEO (3)

Dragons: 5 (Endeavour, Resilience, Endurance, Freedom, Grace)

SpaceX’s continued dominance over Boeing

Boeing was always favored to be the unofficial winner of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They were supposed to beat SpaceX to space by a long shot due to their decades of experience with the Shuttle and ISS. However, Boeing just recently got its first crewed test flight off the ground, and it ran into problems. SpaceX is so far ahead that Starliner’s future as a commercial competitor is not even talked about.

Since 2020, SpaceX has expanded its fleet of Crewed Dragon spacecraft from one to four and tallied up 10 missions. These flights included many firsts like Inspiration4, the first fully commercial spaceflight, and Axiom-1, the first fully commercial mission to the ISS. Several more Axiom flights are planned as well as commercial missions from Polaris, the successor of Inspiration4. Meanwhile, Boeing is just trying to complete its original NASA-paid flights.

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A prequel to crewed Starship flights

All of this looms beneath the shadow of a much larger program that would bring humans to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This of course is known as Starship and is being developed currently down at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. While the rocket has only launched once, and not very far, there is already a list of people getting ready to fly it to space.

The first will be Polaris. Currently, the focus of the Polaris Program is Polaris Dawn, a high-altitude Crewed Dragon flight that will test what SpaceX is capable of on its own. Later on in the program Polaris plans to perform the first crewed Starship mission. However, no details as to what that will look like are public.

A fully stacked Starship rocket down in Starbase, Texas. Image: Theresa Cross / Space Explored

A second mission was dearMoon, a flight around the Moon crewed by artist and musicians with a mission to inspire. However, Yusaku Maezawa canceled the mission in early 2024 due to development delays with Starship.

Starship has the ability to disrupt the launch service industry, when that will happen will be determined on the rocket’s development milestones. But every crew SpaceX launches on its own into space is experienced gained for its true goal, making life multi-planetary.

List of crewed SpaceX Dragon launches

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