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Vice President Kamala Harris said today Award He was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for the first time since 2006. The winners were Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the first astronauts to receive the award. The pair who traveled to the International Space Station and his are honored for their bravery.
Hurley and Behnken took part in a crewed space flight from the continental United States for the first time since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011.
The Harley and Behnken Demo 2 mission was the first manned flight under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Since then, his five other SpaceX crew members have gone to the ISS.
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor is usually awarded to commemorate the first space trip. Note. Previous winners include Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard (first American in space), John Glenn (first American in orbit), and Frank Borman (first Apollo 8 mission to orbit the Moon). captain). The award was also given posthumously to the Apollo 1 crew and crew members who died on the Challenger and Columbia shuttles.
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