NASA Selects Doug Hurley for Commercial Crew

NASA Selects Doug Hurley for Commercial Crew

Doug Hurley is one of four astronauts selected by NASA for Commercial Crew. Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, 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. Hurley, a retired Marine Corps colonel, was born in Endicott, New York, but considers Apalachin his hometown. He flew two space shuttle missions as pilot, including as part of the crew of STS-135, the final shuttle mission. He has spent more than 28 days in space. Hurley served in several technical assignments within the Astronaut Office including as the NASA director of operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. His shuttle missions were STS-127 and STS-135.