Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will receive the prestigious award during a ceremony on Tuesday (Jan. 31) at 4:15 p.m. ET.
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken brief mission controllers about their experience aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft on June 1, 2020, shortly after arriving at the International Space Station aboard the private vehicle on SpaceX's Demo-2 test flight. rocket on May 30, 2020, sending Behnken and Hurley toward the ISS aboard a Dragon capsule. The test flight lasted just over two months, wrapping up on Aug.
The successful mission was a huge milestone for both SpaceX and NASA, ushering in a new era of private astronaut trips to the ISS. Elon Musk's company is in the middle of its fifth contracted crewed flight to the orbiting lab for NASA and is gearing up to
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