Named in honour of Crew Dragon’s first passengers, the ships join SpaceX’s vast fleet
The two newest members of SpaceX’s recovery fleet sailed into Port Canaveral in September. The ships are named after Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the two NASA astronauts who were the first to fly inside a Crew Dragon. Their mission, known as Demo-2, was the final test flight of SpaceX’s Commercial Crew Program, which blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on 30 May 2020. Its success cleared the way for routine astronaut flights to and from the ISS.