Soyuz. Its first uncrewed test flight was in 1999, and the first crewed flight in October 2003 carried Yang Liwei for 14 Earth orbits. Dragon 2 The seven-seat SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule first launched crew to the International Space Station on 30 May 2020 on the Demo-2 mission for NASA. Although originally envisaged as a development of SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon capsule which was used for the NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract, the demands of crewed spaceflight resulted in a significantly redesigned vehicle with limited commonality. New Shepard Crew Capsule The six-seat Blue Origin developed New Shepard crew capsule is a suborbital crewed spacecraft designed for human tended research and space tourism. The capsule can also fly uncrewed, carrying a larger number of payloads and experiments. Developmental crewed capsule designs Russia Orel United States Orion Starliner India Gaganyaan China Chinese next-generation crewed spacecraft Iran Kavoshgar E See also Orbital module Reentry module Service module Space exploration Single-person spacecraft Notes References External links About Capsules SpaceX Building Reusable Crew Capsule Gemini 11 Space Capsule Capsule Soviet inventions