Bob Behnken has a family of three and is a NASA astronaut engineer and former Chief of the Astronaut Office.
He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000, Behnken reported for training in August 2000.
After 18 months of training and evaluation, he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Shuttle Operations Branch, supporting launch and landing operations at Kennedy Space Center.
Behnken was an Air Force ROTC student at Washington University in St.Louis, and after graduate school, was assigned to enter Air Force active duty at Eglin AFB before entering graduate school.
He launched abroad the spacecraft’s first crewed mission with fellow astronaut Doug Hurley on May 30, 2020, and became one of the first two astronauts launching aboard a commercial orbital spacecraft in spaceflight history.
The mission, Crew Dragon Demo-2, took Behnken and Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), where they docked and stayed aboard for 62 days.
Bob Behnken Family
Bob was born to her father St. Ann, Missouri and her mother’s name is unknown.
Unfortunately, there is no more information about his family.
Bob Behnken Salary
There is no information about Behnken’s salary.
He keeps his income or salary private.
Bob Behnken Wife
Bob is the husband of K. Megan McArthur.
She is also an American oceanographer, engineer, and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, where Behnken has served as a Capsule Communicator for both the space shuttle mission.
They have one child named Theodore Behnken.
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Bob Behnken Instagram
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