Commercial Crew Comes to Washington.

President Obama welcomed NASA’s first commercial crew astronauts to the White House on October 19, 2015.
NASA’s commercial crew program is NASA’s plan to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station from American soil.
These pioneering astronauts – Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams – talked about the importance of launching to space from American soil, and how the International Space Station is paving the way NASA’s Journey to Mars.