For the first time in almost a decade, just after 9.30pm on Wednesday, US astronauts will launch into space from American soil.
NASA's administrator Jim Bridenstine has said:"Under President Trump's leadership, we are once again launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil."
The astronauts will be accelerated to approximately 17,000mph - 22 times the speed of sound - and put on an intercept course with the ISS. Mr Hurley and Mr Behnken are going to work alongside the crew of Expedition 63 aboard the ISS, although their main job is the demonstration flight of the Crew Dragon.
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