• The demonstration mission is named as Demo-1.It was a test mission before it can begin taking US astronauts into space.
• The Dragon Capsule had carried Ripley, a test dummy named after the heroine from Alien Movies.
• During the mission, Flight computers guided the spacecraft directly into a docking port, unlike the previous cargo Dragon spacecraft that were attached to the space station after captured by a robotic arm.

Demo-1 was a dress rehearsal to demonstrate that the vehicle is reliable and safe so that NASA can resume manned flights from US soil this year and reduce its reliance on Russia to ferry its astronauts to the space station since the end of the US space shuttle program in 2011 after a 30-year run.