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June 1, 2020
— "Congratulations SpaceX, you got the flag."
Just one day after riding SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endeavour" to a historic docking with the International Space Station, spacecraft commander Doug Hurley held out a small American flag for the company behind his and fellow NASA astronaut Bob Behnken's arrival at the orbiting complex.
"This is the flag we left here almost nine years ago on STS-135. It had actually [first] flown on STS-1 [the first space shuttle mission]," described Hurley during a live downlink from the space station with Benji Reed, SpaceX's director of crew mission management at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Monday (June 1).
"We decided we would have a little friendly competition to see who would come up and get this flag," said Hurley, who as pilot for NASA's final space shuttle mission was part of the crew who left the twice-launched flag on the space station in 2011.
June 1, 2020
— "Congratulations SpaceX, you got the flag."
Just one day after riding SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endeavour" to a historic docking with the International Space Station, spacecraft commander Doug Hurley held out a small American flag for the company behind his and fellow NASA astronaut Bob Behnken's arrival at the orbiting complex.
"This is the flag we left here almost nine years ago on STS-135. It had actually [first] flown on STS-1 [the first space shuttle mission]," described Hurley during a live downlink from the space station with Benji Reed, SpaceX's director of crew mission management at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Monday (June 1).
"We decided we would have a little friendly competition to see who would come up and get this flag," said Hurley, who as pilot for NASA's final space shuttle mission was part of the crew who left the twice-launched flag on the space station in 2011.
