Commercial Crew Program

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley, assigned to fly on the first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, pose inside a mockup of the spacecraft at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the agency’s announcement of their commercial crew assignment Aug. 3. Nine U.S. astronauts were selected for commercial crew flight assignments on the first test flights and operational missions for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)