NASA Leaders Greet Behnken, Hurley After Splashdown

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (far right) applauds astronauts Robert Behnken (second from left) and Douglas Hurley (third from left) at a ceremony on Aug. 2, 2020, at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston. Behnken and Hurley had earlier splashed down in Gulf of Mexico in the Crew Dragon Endeavour, ending NASA’s SpaceX Demo MIssion-2. The flight marked the first launch and landing of American astronauts in a commercially built and operated spacecraft. Also shown are Patrick Forrester, head of the astronaut office (far left); Mark Geyer, director of the Johnson Space Center (third from right) and NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard (second from right).

Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz