NASA astronauts on historic SpaceX mission aiming for August 2 return
Source: CNN Business
NASA astronauts on historic SpaceX mission aiming for August 2 return
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business
Updated 6:04 PM ET, Fri July 17, 2020
New York (CNN Business) — NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the first-ever astronauts to travel into orbit aboard a commercially developed spacecraft, are aiming to return to Earth on August 2, the space agency announced Friday.
The exact time and date of their return home will be determined by weather, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter.
Millions of people watched as Behnken and Hurley strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on May 30, launching their months-long mission to the International Space Station. It marked the first time in nearly a decade that humans launched to the ISS from US soil, and it was the first crewed mission for SpaceX in its 18-year history.
Behnken and Hurley have spent the past two months aboard the ISS alongside NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, who had previously flown to the orbiting laboratory aboard a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft.
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