On this day - 30 May

On May 30th 2020, Space X's Falcon 9 took off from Florida heading to the International Space Centre. This was the first time that a company sent astronauts into space. It was also the first crewed orbital spaceflight to leave US soil in almost a decade, with the previous having been in 2011.

The astronauts on board were Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, both NASA astronauts. The flight successfully docked with the International Space Station where the astronauts completed hundreds of hours worth of scientific experiments before returning to Earth with freezers full of samples.