NASA Selects Bob Behnken for Commercial Crew

NASA Selects Bob Behnken for Commercial Crew

Bob Behnken is one of four astronauts selected by NASA for Commercial Crew. Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Suni Williams have been selected to be the first astronauts to train for test flights to the International Space Station on Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Behnken, a colonel in the Air Force, is from St. Ann, Missouri, and flew twice on space shuttles. His 29 days in space include 37 hours conducting six spacewalks. He served as chief astronaut from 2012 to 2015. His shuttle missions were STS-123 and STS-130.