NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins (Crew Dragon commander, left) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi (mission specialist, right) participating in crew interface training for SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon mission. Other crew members of the Crew-1 mission, not pictured here, are NASA astronauts Shannon Walker (mission specialist) and Victor Glover (pilot). The SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon mission launched on 15th November 2020 to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the first operational crewed flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first NASA-certified manned spacecraft launch from US soil since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011.