WATCH: Former NASA Astronauts Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken Awarded Congressional Space Medal of Honor

By  //  February 1, 2023

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WATCH:  Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by Vice President Kamala Harris during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on Jan. 31 in Washington.

(NASA) – Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on Jan. 31 in Washington.

Behnken and Hurley were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 to the International Space Station in 2020, the first crewed flight as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

On May 30, 2020, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launched to the space station, marking the first mission to launch with astronauts as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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