NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken & Douglas Hurley | Medal of Honor Ceremony

NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken & Douglas Hurley | Medal of Honor Ceremony

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are seen as they arrive prior to being awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley, right, are seen after being awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley, right, are seen after being awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Former NASA astronaut Robert Behnken is seen after being awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Former NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley is seen after being awarded the Congressional Space Medal

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley, right, are seen after being awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by Vice President Kamala Harris during a ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Washington

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a ceremony awarding the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Washington

Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by Vice President Kamala Harris during a ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Washington, DC. Former astronauts Behnken and Hurley were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 to the International Space Station in 2020, the first crewed flight as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Demo-2 was the final step before NASA's Commercial Crew Program certified Crew Dragon for operational, long-duration missions to the space station, enabling NASA to continue important research and technology investigations onboard the station.

To learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Image Date: Jan. 31, 2023

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