Preparation scheduled for Wednesday test launch Crew manned Dragon is going according to schedule, all the teams are ready to start, said at a briefing head of the program of commercial manned space flight NASA Katherine Leugers.
"Today we had a pre-flight analysis… All the teams are ready to start, we’re coming to the realization of our mission", – said the representative of NASA.
According to her, held on may 22, static test of a rocket engine, the Falcon 9 was successful, and a dress rehearsal for the start of the next day "was ahead of schedule".
"We continue to caution that everything went as needed", – said Leuders.
The first test launch of the manned spacecraft Crew Dragon on may 27, at 16.33 (23.33 GMT) from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. On Board the ISS to poison NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. The launch will be the first manned launch of the us spacecraft since the completion of the program "space Shuttle" in 2011. To resume its own manned space flight, NASA has concluded contracts with private American companies SpaceX and Boeing, are creating the ships Crew Dragon and Cockpit. In March 2019, the spacecraft Crew Dragon made its first unmanned test flight to the ISS. In December 2019, the first such flight was made, the ship Cockpit, but for technical reasons its docking with the ISS was cancelled.
