Now Boarding: SpaceX’s New Ride to Orbit for NASA Astronauts
- by The New York Times
- May 26, 2020
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Two Astronauts
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are the first to test the Crew Dragon in orbit.
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on March 30.
SpaceX
Each astronaut flew twice on the space shuttle: Mr. Behnken in 2008 and 2010, and Mr. Hurley in 2009 and 2011 for the last space shuttle mission.
Seats for Seven
Crew Dragon has more room and can carry more people than the Apollo capsules that flew astronauts to the moon and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that ferry people to and from the space station.
Future flights of the Crew Dragon would carry four astronauts to the station, and the spacecraft can hold up to seven.
Apollo Command Module
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