Company SpaceX, with the assistance of NASA (National Aeronautics and space research) is planning to launch into space a full crew no earlier than October 23. In the mission called the Crew-1 involved three American and one Japanese astronaut. They will go in the capsule of SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International space station (ISS), informs a portal ibtimes.com.
According to the newspaper, the astronauts will stay on the station for six months to conduct research and complete other tasks. The crew will include Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which should understand the capsule arrived in Florida in July to prepare for the launch Crew-a 1.
Previously, NASA and SpaceX had planned a launch Crew-1 at the end of September. The Agency said that the delay will “transfer crew” aboard the space station. Crew Crew-1 will stay on the ISS until the end of April, and the launch of the SpaceX crew Crew-2 is scheduled for spring 2021.
the Announcement was made two weeks after the successful completion of the test flight SpaceX Demo 2 with two NASA astronauts. It was the first in the history of flight the crew. If is not detected any major problems, NASA certified rocket and capsule system SpaceX for organization of regular flights of astronauts to the ISS.
