SpaceX has been awarded the 2021 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement after the company successfully launched and returned two NASA astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station in 2020 using its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft. This marked the first time NASA astronauts traveled on a U.S.-made and -operated spacecraft since 2011, when the agency retired the space shuttle orbiters, and the first time NASA astronauts traveled on vehicles owned and operated by a private company.

The Michael Collins Trophy is awarded annually by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. #CollinsTrophy