Astronauts will ride aboard the vessel in the first manned U.S. space mission in nearly 10 years. Two firsts will be etched into space exploration history on Wednesday, May 27: The first U.S.
manned space mission since 2011, and the first time that astronauts ventured into the stars in a craft from SpaceX. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, two decorated pilots and NASA astronauts, will take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon craft.
The rocket carrying them past the stratosphere will be a Falcon 9. They will be participating in the Demo-2 mission, where they’ll be aboard the International Space Station for an undetermined amount of time. The Crew Dragon in a nutshell The vessel is a modification of SpaceX’s Dragon 2