Apollo Command and Service Module
The three-man spacecraft that carried every Apollo crew to the Moon, returning at a record 39,897 km/h — still the fastest humans have ever traveled.
Crewed Spacecraft
Orion
NASA’s deep-space capsule for Artemis Moon missions carries four astronauts, and on Artemis I in 2022 flew 432,210 km from Earth — a crew-spacecraft record.
Shenzhou
China’s three-seat spacecraft made the country the third nation to launch humans in 2003 and still ferries every crew to the Tiangong space station today.
Crew Dragon
SpaceX’s Dragon 2 capsule ended America’s nine-year crew-launch gap in 2020 and now flies four astronauts at a time to the ISS — reusable and fully autonomous.
Soyuz Spacecraft
Flying since 1967, Russia’s three-seat Soyuz is the longest-serving crewed spacecraft ever — about 145 crewed flights, and for nine years the only ride to the ISS.