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Vice President Kamala Harris will today award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for the first time since 2006.
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The winners include Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the first astronauts to go to into space in crewed SpaceX mission in 2020.
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The two, who travelled into the International Space Station and stayed there for nearly an entire year, are set to be awarded for their bravery.
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Hurley, as well as Behnken, made up the initial spaceflight with a crew from US soil since the previous Space Shuttle mission in 2011.
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They also took part in one of the Space Shuttle, and Hurley was part of the program's final flight.
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Hurley, as well as Behnken's Demo-2 mission, was the first flight with a crew in NASA's Commercial Crew Program.