ISS crew briefing
NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy speak at a June 1 media event on the ISS, hold an American flag left on the station by the STS-135 shuttle mission nearly nine years ago.

After making history on the first crewed flight of an orbital spacecraft launched from the United States in nearly nine years, two NASA astronauts are settling in on the International Space Station.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...