---
title: "SpaceX President: We Plan to Launch a Crewed Mission in May"
description: "SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away."
date: "2020-03-10"
modified: "2020-03-10"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-president-launch-crewed-mission-may"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
tags:
  - "crew mission"
  - "iss"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "the digest"
---

# SpaceX President: We Plan to Launch a Crewed Mission in May

![SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SpaceX-President-Plan-Launch-Crewed-Mission-May.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: SpaceX\</em\>*

## May Happen

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says the company plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away — according to *Reuters* space reporter Joey Roulette.

https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1237433502422970369

## Announcement Season

Shotwell was [seemingly speaking](<https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1237433316485234694>) at Satellite 2020, a conference for participants in the "[burgeoning space-based economy](<https://www.satshow.com/why-attend/>)."

Musk delivered the keynote at the conference last night, where he [said that his primary goal](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-goal-get-humanity-mars-before-die>) is to bring humanity to Mars before he dies.

## Crewed Mission

It's [become routine](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncrewed_spaceflights_to_the_International_Space_Station>) for SpaceX to make uncrewed deliveries to the International Space Station, but it has yet to launch human crew members up there — meaning NASA [still needs to rely](<https://astronomy.com/news/2019/04/nasa-astronauts-will-ride-russian-rockets-for-another-year>) on a testy relationship with the Russian space program to get its astronauts into orbit.

But, if Shotwell is to be believed, that could all change as soon as this May.

**READ MORE:** [Joey Roulette](<https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1237433502422970369>) \[Twitter\]

**More on SpaceX:** *[Elon Musk Was Pretty Pissed When His Starship Prototype Exploded](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-pissed-starship-prototype-exploded>)*

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
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