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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – At T-0, two astronauts experienced with manually flying a spaceship will begin an autopilot journey to the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are both Space Shuttle veterans. Hurley was on board the orbiter's final flight in 2011.
That spaceship was not designed with an abort system and also unlike Dragon, shuttle's flight was not automated. Demo-2 follows Demo-1 which was the uncrewed flight of Dragon to the space station in March 2019.
This time, Hurley is designated as Dragon's commander for the launch, landing and recovery, and Behnken gets the responsibility of docking Dragon. "They do have manual controls that they can engage if they need to and they are going to test
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