> Vice President Kamala Harris will award former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hurley and Behnken will receive the award for bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2) to the International Space Station in 2020.

Always good to see these awards going to living astronauts.

Why is it getting awarded by Kamala Harris? Previous Congressional Space Medal of Honor recipients received the award from the President, not the Vice President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor

Space Medal of Honor is the coolest name for an accolade of all time

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My boy!!! Doug Hurley went to my alma mater, I got to hang out with him for a bit senior year. Great dude, super laid back. Huge Pink Floyd fan

Because president Biden has bigger fish to fry.

I guess it's because the US VP is the Chair of the National Space Council. I'm guessing they want to compartmentalize and keep having the VP being the WH's lead for Space Activities.

Their flight to the ISS felt like a historical moment. Not only that, it all went so well as if they were showing off how calm and collected they were on a Sunday afternoon.

Congratulations. These awards are the highest to receive, no matter who delivers it to recipient. IMO

I know this is wrong, but is he the one who cut his head entering the ISS, while everyone else was getting ready for a picture. Or was that someone else?

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“Why does everything we get have to have the word ‘space’ in it?”

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Hey, why not give a medal to the creator of this great space ship??

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Yeah even space has space in it, so unfair

I think it was a team, is there a specific designer you'd like to see recognized like maybe the engineer John Federspiel?

Note: space medal of honor is only valid in space. other conditions may apply.

Thanks, youre right, a team effort. I dont think it is helpful to break up the team and elevate one of their people. Just leave it as is.

absolutely there were a lot of people involved, but only two of them put their lives at risk flying on a brand new spacecraft.

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I got to meet Bob and Doug after their flight on DM-1 when I worked at SpaceX. I helped build the capsule they flew in and have a piece of the reentry parachute at home. Awesome guys

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