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Astronauts picked for SpaceX, Boeing capsule test flights

This undated photo made available by NASA on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 shows, from left, Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson,
Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover standing in front of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsules at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Associated Press
By MARCIA DUNN the first commercial cap- shooting for a test flight of by next spring or summer. first crew flights and four on
AP Aerospace Writer sules into orbit next year their capsules by the end of Nine astronauts were the second round of mis-
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) and bring crew launches this year or early next, with named to ride the SpaceX sions to the International
— NASA on Friday assigned back to the U.S. the first crews flying from Dragon and Boeing Star- Space Station.
the astronauts who will ride SpaceX and Boeing are Cape Canaveral, Florida, liner capsules — five on the Continued on Page 3