Commercial Crew Program (CCP)
Public-private partnership restoring US crew launch capability after Space Shuttle retirement. SpaceX Crew Dragon is the primary ISS crew transport vehicle, with 13+ successful crewed missions since 2020. Boeing Starliner's crewed flight test in June 2024 experienced thruster issues — crew returned via SpaceX Dragon in Feb 2025. Starliner future uncertain.
Budget
$8.3B total awarded (SpaceX $3.14B + Boeing $4.82B)
Timeline
2014–ongoing
Key Milestones
SpaceX Demo-2 — first US commercial crewed orbital flight (Behnken & Hurley)
2020 — May
Crew-1 — first operational Dragon mission to ISS
2020 — Nov
Boeing Starliner CFT — crewed flight test launched; thruster anomalies on approach
2024 — Jun
Starliner CFT crew (Wilmore & Williams) returned to Earth via SpaceX Crew Dragon
2025 — Feb
SpaceX Crew-9, Crew-10 — continued ISS rotation flights
2025
SpaceX Crew-11/12 missions continuing; Starliner program under NASA review
2026
Contractors
Sources
- nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space