Crew-11 was the eleventh operational crewed mission that SpaceX has launched for NASA under the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), a partnership launched in the 2010s to return astronaut launches to U.S. soil.
The mission also shows the growing popularity in public-private partnerships in spaceflight, with SpaceX's Falcon 9 reusable rocket and Crew Dragon capsule now regular fixtures on NASA's manifest.
