Three Rookies, Six Veterans Nab Commercial Crew Flight Assignments

Credit: Robert Markowitz/NASA
The scene at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 3 when NASA named crews for the first flights of two, low-Earth-orbit transportation systems could not have been more different from when John Young and Robert Crippen were assigned to the first space shuttle mission or when Alan Shepard was...

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