SpaceX Readies Astronauts for America’s Return to Space Travel

SpaceX Readies Astronauts for America’s Return to Space Travel
(L-R) NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, and Director of Crew Mission Management Benji Reed talk to reporters in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, under construction in a clean room, during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory on Aug. 13, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. David McNew/Getty Images
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It’s starting to feel real. Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. have contracts with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of what’s known as the Commercial Crew Program. Seven years after the end of the space shuttle program, NASA introduced the astronauts who will fly with both companies.

Now comes the hard part.