NASA announced four astronauts who fly aboard the SpaceX crewed dragon.
The astronauts for SpaceX mission are Bob Behnken, Col. Doug Hurley, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins.
The crewed dragon will likely fly in 2019.
Nine U.S. astronauts, eight NASA and one from Boeing, were assigned to the first test flights and operational missions for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The astronaut assignments are:
Boeing Crew Flight Test
Eric Boe
Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson
Nicole Aunapu Mann
SpaceX Demo-2
Bob Behnken
Doug Hurley
Boeing operational mission
Josh Cassada
Suni Williams
SpaceX operational mission
Victor Glover
Mike Hopkins
Meet the first four @NASA astronauts who will fly aboard Crew Dragon to the @Space_Station! https://t.co/9JZLWOPSK0 pic.twitter.com/mNYa1PjKwU
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 3, 2018
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BOOO!
NO MORE G-MEN in SPACE!!!!
hire REAL explorers and active pilots the nasa crap will lie.
” pc groomed governent LIARS”
You seem upset about something. Certainly something that hasn’t appeared in this article.
Do you need to talk?
Good. Took them long enough. The ISS should be getting more visits starting next year. Its swan song before becoming obsolete by more modern space facilities and launchers.
And the money resulting from these contracts will be used for having BFR.
But it’s also likely they will choose to keep ISS around some more, to justify other projects.
Given the SpaceX and Boeing manned capsules are fully automated, desk jockeys are fine as long as they know how to handle themselves in 0g.
I sure like the idea of a SpaceX crew flying first. These government pension leeches later.
they /we need real pilots not some pc groomed governent LIARS.
hire real explorers and pilots not these desk jockeys.
these government issues crew has gone noplace in over 30 years!
Spacex crew flying first.