22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
...much more modern design with the new Dragon vehicle,” said astronaut Robert Behnken, speaking remotely before the US National Space Council on May ...are veterans of two Space Shuttle missions each. Behnken was an Air Force flight test engineer. Douglas...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
...International Space Station at 7:35 pm EDT (23:35 GMT) yesterday after more than two months of docked operations in orbit. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, traveling aboard the spacecraft they named “Endeavour,” will spend one more night...
02 August 2020
SpaceX’s historic Demo-2 mission ends with a splash
... era in human spaceflight. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf...containers to manage fluids and gases. Hurley and Behnken worked on numerous sample switch outs for the ...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley arrived at the ...The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday. Behnken and Hurley, the first astronauts to fly to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the station, were...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry humans to orbit, delivered astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the ISS on 31 May 2020, opening a new era in human spaceflight. Courts of the future...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... a decade on 30 May 2020, multitudes around the world watched with breathless anticipation, and wished NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley safe travel to the ISS. Why exploring space matters “Should we be content to be cosmic couch...
