NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins, assigned to fly on the first operational mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, pose in front of a mockup of the spacecraft at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2 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.
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NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins, assigned to fly on the first operational mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, pose in front of a mockup of the spacecraft at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2 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.