Two trailblazing former NASA astronauts will obtain the Congressional House Medal of Honor from U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday (Jan. 31), and you’ll watch the motion reside.
Harris will bestow the celebrated award on Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley for his or her bravery, NASA officers stated. The duo flew SpaceX‘s first-ever crewed mission, the Demo-2 test flight to the Worldwide House Station (ISS) in 2020.
The occasion begins Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. EST (2115 GMT). Watch it reside right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency (opens in new tab).
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Demo-2 lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Could 30, 2020, sending Behnken and Hurley towards the ISS aboard a Dragon capsule. The check flight lasted simply over two months, wrapping up on Aug. 2 when the Dragon splashed down safely off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
The profitable mission was an enormous milestone for each SpaceX and NASA, ushering in a brand new period of personal astronaut journeys to the ISS. Elon Musk’s firm is in the course of its fifth contracted crewed flight to the orbiting lab for NASA and is gearing as much as launch its sixth in late February.
Hurley retired from NASA in July 2021, and Behnken adopted swimsuit in November 2022.
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