There are still unmanned certification flights for both Boeing and SpaceX.
They are both hoping for the first crewed missions in mid-2019. NASA expects that timeline could slip to late 2019 or 2020.
The last time a US spaceship launched a crewed mission was a 2011 space shuttle mission.
It will have been around ten years of Americans launching on Russian Soyuz rockets, when NASA next flies using a US rocket.
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Nit picking, but the last manned space mission sent by the USA using an American spaceship was the Space Shuttle STS-135 mission, launched on 2011.