of Course, the ocean really looking forward to this start. Aboard the Crew Dragon will fly the astronauts, and they’re test – 53-year-old Douglas Harley and 49-year-old Robert Behnken.
This is the first manned launch Americans to the ISS from the United States after ten years ago overseas shuttles sent on a holiday. By the way, foreign experts emphasize that the presence in the crew Crew Dragon Douglas Harley is very symbolic: it was part of the last mission “Atlantis”, after which I closed the whole program the space Shuttle.
All these years, astronauts flew to the space station only on the Russian Soyuz. It is clear that worried Americans without the ability on their ships to deliver their astronauts to the ISS. The resumption of flights was a matter of honor and national pride.
to resume its own manned flights, NASA made a knight’s move has attracted for the development of new ships of private traders. The contracts were signed with companies SpaceX and Boeing, are creating the ships Crew Dragon and Cockpit. Initially it was assumed that the American commercial “beginners” will start to fly in 2017. But technical problems turned out to be the roof.
it is Clear that a new ship is a legitimate interest to specialists on both sides of the ocean. “We have a large interest in the technical side of this business, because we are working on updating their ships to build a ship “eagle”, laying the foundations for another ship, which will provide low orbit, which flies and the ISS is at least 400 km from the Earth. Here our interest is in the fact that there is an alternative”, – said the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin on air of radio station “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
He stressed that in space, that does not forgive mistakes, must be a technical redundancy only: starting tables, missiles, ships. In his opinion, if the United States will launch its manned spacecraft in these terms, one of the most important in the world of space exploration tasks will be solved. “And, of course, we now share responsibility for the delivery of crews to the ISS by the Americans, it’s a natural process,” – said the head of Roscosmos.
