NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are undergoing a 19-hour journey to the ISS as part of the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule.
Yesterday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history when they became the first crew members to be launched into space from American soil since the ending of the space shuttle program in 2011. They were launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket aboard their SpaceX designed and built Crew Dragon capsule for its first crewed test flight.
Now, they are undergoing a 19-hour journey to the International Space Station (ISS) and keeping livestream viewers entertained with a tour of their spacecraft. Later today they will dock with the ISS, where they’ll disembark and stay for between one and three months.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine underlined the significance of this achievement in a statement: “Today a new era in human spaceflight begins as we once again launched American astronauts on American rockets from American soil on their way to the International Space Station, our national lab orbiting Earth,” he said.
