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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley smile ahead of a final dress rehearsal of their SpaceX Demo-2 launch on a Crew Dragon spacecraft at Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23, 2020.

Meet the NASA astronauts launching on SpaceX's historic Crew Dragon test flight

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Two veteran NASA astronauts are ready and excited to launch from Florida to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX spacecraft next week. But who are they?

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NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Karen Nyberg and their sons say goodbye to their husbands, Demo-2 astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, on May 27, 2020.

For the astronauts on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, space travel is all in the (NASA) family

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Astronauts set to launch today (May 27) are also married to astronauts!

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NASA astronaut Bob Behnken takes a selfie with a model rocket launching from Florida's Atlantic coast on May 26, 2020.

A NASA astronaut launched a model rocket on eve of his own historic SpaceX launch

By Hanneke Weitering published

On the eve of his historic launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronaut Bob Behnken got ready for the big day by launching a rocket of his own.

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NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (center) and Bob Behnken smile as they walk across the Crew Access Arm to their Crew Dragon spaceraft during a launch attempt at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27, 2020.

Stuck on Earth, the astronauts of SpaceX's 1st crewed flight keep their spirits high

By Meghan Bartels published

Two veteran NASA astronauts were still cheerful after bad weather scrubbed their historic launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.

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Demo-2 crewmates Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley take part in a full simulation of launch and docking of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft inside a flight simulator. While learning how to fly the capsule, the two astronauts made suggestions to SpaceX but avoided customizing the Dragon to fit their preferences.

NASA astronauts avoided turning SpaceX's Crew Dragon into 'Bob & Doug's excellent machine'

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

As chronicled in "The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe's book about the rise of the U.S. human spaceflight program, the nation's original astronauts insisted that a window be added to the Mercury capsule.

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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley sit inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft during a fully integrated test of critical crew flight hardware on March 30, 2020.

How long will the 1st astronauts to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon be in space? No one knows exactly (yet).

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

Two NASA astronauts will make history this month when they fly to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. But how long their mission will last has yet to be determined.

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NASA astronauts Bob Behknen (left) and Doug Hurley will be the first to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft during the Demo-2 mission. It could launch in Spring 2020.

Astronauts enter a routine quarantine for historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Astronauts entered quarantine today (May 13) to prepare for a historic launch to space.

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NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (at left) and Bob Behnken (right) participate in a dress rehearsal for their launch at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23, 2020, ahead of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts' SpaceX-designed spacesuits omit a mission patch.

SpaceX astronauts first to forgo wearing mission patch for launch since Gemini

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The first NASA astronauts to launch from the United States in almost a decade will also be the first American crew in 55 years to lift off wearing spacesuits that lack a mission patch.

Missions
A close-up of SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts and its Falcon 9 rocket on Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as seen by Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite taken on May 23, 2020 during a launch dress rehearsal.

Here's what SpaceX's 1st spaceship to carry astronauts looks like from space (satellite photos)

By Meghan Bartels published

A satellite has spotted SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon standing tall on a launch pad in Florida, ready for this week's historic crewed flight.

Satellites
Astronauts Bob Behnken (right) and Doug Hurley walk out of their Astronaut Crew Quarters to take a Tesla Model X to NASA's Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23, 2020 during a dress rehearsal of their SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch.

Astronauts perform one last dress rehearsal for big SpaceX launch next week

By Tariq Malik published

Two NASA astronauts climbed inside their SpaceX spaceship today (May 23) for one last rehearsal ahead of a historic launch into orbit next week.

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