Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken in preparation for the launch of the manned spacecraft Crew Dragon company SpaceX to the International space station (ISS) launched on Wednesday the pre-flight quarantine. This was reported on the NASA website.
the Astronauts may stay in quarantine, either at home, if there are conditions, or in the Center of manned space flight in Houston (Texas) before heading to the launch site at Cape Canaveral. It is noted that Harley and Behnken will continue the quarantine at the spaceport, where it will arrive may 20, TASS.
the launch of the spacecraft scheduled for may 27 at 16:32 time East coast USA (23:32 GMT) and docked with the ISS on may 28. Crew Dragon is a modification of the cargo ship Dragon, which successfully delivers cargo to orbit.
Recall that NASA stopped manned flights in 2011, and since then, American astronauts delivered to the ISS by the Russian “Unions”. Previously it was assumed that the commercial ships of the United States will launch manned flights in 2017.
