by Earlier this month, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft completed the Crew-5 mission, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station. Since 2020, including demonstration flights and two private spaceflights – Inspiration4 and Axiom-1, Crew Dragon put a total of 30 astronauts into orbit, more than the total number of astronauts carried by the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft since 2003 and the total number of astronauts transported by the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the past two years. Crew-5 is the last mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft this year, and it will fly two crewed missions in the first quarter of next year.
