CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Anticipation continued to build Saturday as NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Dough Hurley rode out to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, but not before giving America a personal look at their touching goodbyes to their families.
Hurley and Behnken are the test pilots tasked with flying to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Saturday’s mission is the commercial space company’s first crewed flight of the space capsule and also marks the return of human spaceflight from the U.S.
since the shuttle program ended in 2011. Forty minutes after the astronauts suited up, the two walked out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, where their families waited behind yellow