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Four U.S. astronauts selected for commercial crew flight assignments on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon gathered in front of a mockup of the spacecraft at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2 ahead of the announcement Aug. 3. From left NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are assigned to the company’s first test flight, and Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover were assigned to the first operational missions for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Nine U.S. astronauts were selected for commercial crew flight assignments on the first flights and missions for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.