Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley arrived on Wednesday in the Space centre Kennedy in Florida, where after a week they have to take a test test flight to the ISS on the latest spacecraft Crew Dragon. Earlier, the astronauts were trained in the Space center Johnson in Texas.
“It’s amazing, and we are lucky to fly on this ship” – quoted by RIA Novosti Deputy commander Douglas Hurley. He became a member of the last flight in the program use the return of the ships of the Space Shuttle in 2011. Since then, American astronauts on the ISS were taken only by the Russian “Unions”.
Now during the week the crew will continue preparations for the flight. Also Behnken and Hurley will be able to spend time with his family, who will arrive at the Space center in the days following rigid quarantine because of pandemic coronavirus.
the Crew Dragon Launch from Cape Canaveral is scheduled for may 27. The next day’s planned docking with the International space station. On the timing of the astronauts in orbit have not yet been reported.
