Date in year · 2020 · The 2020s

May 30, 2020

On May 30, 2020, the Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. The year's #1 song was "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd.

Events

1

Births

0

Deaths

1

Year

2020

2020s

Around 2020

The year in brief

2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.

Read the full year of 2020 →

What happened

On May 30, 2020

  1. 2020 The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.

    First crewed flight of Crew Dragon

    Crew Dragon Demo-2 was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on May 30, 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station in the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and the first ever operated by a commercial provider. Demo-2 was also the first two-person orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since STS-4 in 1982.

Farewells

Died on May 30, 2020

Michael Angelis English actor (1944–2020)

Elsewhere that year

Other moments from 2020

Step through

Nearby

Keep going

More to explore