Currently, astronauts travel to and from the International Space Station (ISS) via SpaceXs Crew Dragon capsule or, in the case of Russian cosmonauts, a Russian Soyuz capsule. The Soyuz was the primary form of transportation for all astronauts and cosmonauts after NASA’s space shuttle program retired in 2011. Crew Dragon began flying people starting with the Demo-2 mission that launched on May 30, 2020. NASAs space shuttle was previously used to carry astronauts to and from the ISS, but it was retired in 2011. NASAs new spacecraft, Orion, is built to take humans farther into space than theyve ever gone before, but it is not currently used to transport astronauts to and from the ISS.