No one was on board, and no one was hurt, but Last October, the astronauts said they still had confidence in the spacecraft.“Certainly, it’s disappointing,” Mr. Hurley said.
“I’m never getting over the fact that two of the #SpaceX astronauts are Bob and Doug. “So I got the thumbs up from him and in the end, that’s all that matters.”Mr.
Launch is at 22h People created social media content on Saturday that compared the SpaceX Bob and Doug astronaut duo with fictional Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie. Their incredible efforts over the last several years to make this possible cannot go overstated. Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onCanadians familiar with the famous fictional Canadian brothers have fun on social media with the SpaceX astronaut duo of the same name.Canada's Bob and Doug take off — eh! “We’re kind of at the point in our experience — whether it’s flying in the T-38 or executing in a The rapport and good humor between the astronauts was evident in Mr. Hurley offered a more serious answer, talking about how he enjoyed working together with a close friend.“And yes,” he said, “the celebratory vomiting at the end of the mission will be excellent.”Both are former military pilots who rose to the rank of colonel — Mr. Behnken in the United States Air Force, Mr. Hurley in the Marines — before deciding they wanted to go even higher. "We were surprised a little bit at how smooth things were off the pad. Now they're going to space... Beauty, eh! He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Tulane University.Mr. After a successful uncrewed test flight of a Crew Dragon to the space station last year, it looked like Mr. Behnken and Mr. Hurley would soon follow on their mission.But then the spacecraft’s parachutes — essential for the safe return of the astronauts — failed in some tests. But the other part of it, you have to keep in mind, is this is test, evaluation development, and it’s part of the process.”Mr. When their stay ends, the astronauts will climb back into the Endeavour, disembark from the ISS, and The overarching goal of the test mission is to show SpaceX's ship is safe to fly people.If NASA determines it is, then the agency can fully staff the space station with astronaut crews and maximize its ability to perform research.
Hurley, right, with Mr. Behnken and Elon Musk during a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in 2019. What happened? It flew really well, very really crisp," Hurley said during Behnken and Hurley then turned Endeavour's autopilot back on, and the spacecraft The ship's docking mechanism connected to the node at 10:16 a.m. The irony of two men named bob and doug taking off into space was not lost on social media, where people — many canadian — celebrated two fictional brothers famous for satirizing canadian culture.
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Some people on social media say Saturday's SpaceX rocket launch is a beauty for Canada, eh! The SpaceX Dragon Capsule carrying Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken came down in the Gulf of Mexico just south of Pensacola on Florida's Gulf coast. He then completed master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.The road to the launchpad has been longer than had been expected and planned.