Meet Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, 2 'badass' astronauts, engineers, and dads who are poised to make history for SpaceX, NASA and the world
, a 49-year-old Missouri native, followed a similar path. He pursued a mechanical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis, later picking up a master's degree and PhD in the topic from Caltech. Amid that academic work he'd joined the US Air Force's ROTC program, which led him to become a test pilot and also a member of the same class of NASA astronaut candidates.
"Doug likes to play a dumb pilot, but he's actually a really smart guy," Reisman told Business Insider. "And Bob's nickname is 'Dr. Bob.'" "I'm sitting there laughing my my ass off because I know that he knows more about this stuff than they do," Reisman said.
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