NASA says SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts have set a space record

Th Crew-1 mission is the first operational mission launched from U.S. soil since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. In May of last year, a pair of NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, spent about two months on the space station in a flight designed to test how SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft would operate.

Once that mission was completed successfully, NASA proceeded with the Crew-1 flight with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover as well as Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.