Crew for commercial craft to ISS

NASA introduced its first American astronauts Aug. 3 who will fly on U.S.-made commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station (ISS). It’ll be the first time since the space shuttles’ retirement in 2011 that astronauts will launch and return to U.S. soil. NASA assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The astronauts are Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover. Additional crew members will be assigned by NASA’s international partners at a later date. (Source: NASA 08/03/18)