International Space Station’s NASA Expedition 63 Crew Opened Nasdaq Trading Tuesday Morning

Behnken, Hurley arrived at the station on May 31

BREVARD COUNTY, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER • FLORIDA – NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley and Chris Cassidy appear on Nasdaq’s large television screen above Times Square in New York on Tuesday.

The three astronauts, part of the International Space Station’s Expedition 63 crew, rang the ship’s bell onboard the station to open the day’s trading.

Behnken and Hurley arrived at the station on May 31, a day after becoming the first NASA astronauts to launch on a commercial rocket.

The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft marked the return of human launches from U.S. soil to the space station for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

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