The dawn of the commercial era of spaceflight. With this mission, SpaceX not only returned the capability of launching humans into orbit to the United States, but more importantly became the first private company to launch people into orbit and successfully return them to Earth. The two month flight brought two NASA astronauts up to the Space Station to fully test the new Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of "regular" crew rotation missions to follow. The flight was the first in nine years to carry humans to orbit from the U.S. following the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. The historic nature of the first commercial, private orbital human spaceflight in history was marked by the mission's launch from the same pad used to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.