Meet the NASA astronauts launching on SpaceX's historic Crew Dragon test flight

[LazyHippo]

Two veteran NASA astronauts are ready and excited to launch from Florida to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX spacecraft this week. But who are they?
On Wednesday (May 27) at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT), astronauts Robert "Bob" Behnken and Douglas "Doug" Hurley will strap into a Crew Dragon vehicle atop a Falcon 9 rocket and launch into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's all part of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission, the first crewed test flight of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Both astronauts have extensive flying experience and have flown to space on multiple missions.

 

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley smile ahead of a final dress rehearsal of their SpaceX Demo-2 launch on a Crew Dragon spacecraft at Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23, 2020. (Image credit: SpaceX)

 

 

 

More at: https://www.space.com/nasa-astronauts-spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-bios.html

[RedBaird]

An interesting note about their wives:

 

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Hurley and Behnken are married to fellow members of their 2000 astronaut class at NASA: newly retired Karen Nyberg and Megan McArthur. Each couple has one child, boys 10 and 6 years old. Being married to an astronaut, both men acknowledged, has made it easier in the unexpectedly long run-up to their SpaceX flight.

 

It is almost like four astronauts are going on that flight.

 

I wonder if astronaut training helps with spouses' fears or increases them.   Maybe it makes them more focused on every detail that they can get and more analytical, which can help suppress the "fear of the unknown" that the "civilian spouses" can feel.