Behnken, Harris and Hurley
Former NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley stand with Vice President Kamala Harris after she awarded them the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at a Jan. 31 ceremony.

The two men who flew on the first NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station in 2020 received a rarely awarded medal from the White House Jan. 31.

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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...