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Doug Hurley: 5 Things To Know About Astronaut Flying In Historic SpaceX Mission

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Meet Doug Hurley, a 53-year-old veteran astronaut who’s about to accomplish something phenomenal on May 27.

Along with friend and colleague Bob Behnken, Hurley will be part of the first space mission from the United States since the retirement of space shuttles in 2011.

In the time since the shuttles’ retirement, the US has relied upon Russia’s ships to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

Hurley and Behnken are now heading to the ISS aboard a ship from SpaceX, Elon Musk‘s rocket-building venture, and should the trip from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida go as planned, it could mean a new era for American space exploration — including potential space tourism.

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