Breaking: Astronauts for Commercial Crew Announced

The first crews that will launch to space aboard the Boeing CST-100 and the SpaceX Crew Dragon in partnership with the Commercial Crew Program were announced at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 3.

NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams were announced with Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson as the first humans who will fly on the commercial vehicles.

The astronauts were assigned to flights during the event that consist of a flight test and post-certification flight for each spacecraft.


Commerical Crew Program astronauts. Top row, from left: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover. Bottom row, from left: Chris Ferguson (Boeing), Nicole Mann, Eric Boe, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. Image Credit: NASA
 

CREWS

Boeing Crew Flight Test
Eric Boe, Nicole Mann and Chris Ferguson (Boeing)

SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley

Boeing Post-Certification Mission
Josh Cassada and Sunita Williams

SpaceX Post-Certification Mission
Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins
 

GET INVOLVED

The crews will be answering questions on social media throughout the day. Get involved by following the links below.

#LaunchAmerica Schedule:

11:30 a.m. - Reddit Ask Me Anything with all nine announced astronauts at https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
2 p.m. - Facebook Live with the Boeing post-certification mission crew on the International Space Station Facebook page
2:30 p.m. Periscope with the SpaceX post-certification mission crew on the International Space Station Twitter account
 

Noah Michelsohn
NASA Johnson Space Center