Saturday, 4 August 2018

Meet the Astronauts Flying SpaceX’s Demo-2 – Commercial Crew Program

Meet the Astronauts Flying SpaceX’s Demo-2 – Commercial Crew Program

Targeted to launch in April 2019 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Bob Behnken is from St. Ann, Missouri. He has a doctorate in engineering, is a flight test engineer, and Colonel in the Air Force. He joined the astronaut corps in 2000, and flew aboard space shuttle Endeavour twice – for the STS-123 and STS-130 missions, during which he performed six spacewalks, for a total of more than 37 hours.

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