NASA’s first SpaceX operational crew, the Dragon Mission, is set to launch on Saturday.
The mission will bring NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Waker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Sochi Noguchi to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon vehicle. It follows a successful Demo-2 mission earlier this year.
“Today’s Flight Readiness Review has officially ended, and we’re going to #Lancha America on Nov. 14,” NASA tweeted on Tuesday.
“સા NASA And SpaceX Has completed the certificate of # Crude DragonNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein tweeted on Tuesday. “I am very proud to say that we are launching regular human spaceflight on American soil on American rockets and spacecraft.”
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The Crew-1 launch above the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for Saturday at 7:49 p.m. from Launch Complex 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to dock towards the ISS at 4:20 a.m. Sunday.
Japanese astronauts Sochi Noguchi, from left, NASA astronauts Shannon Waker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins, depart after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, November 8, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The crew-1 mission of the International Space Station is scheduled to begin on November 14, 2020
(AP Photo / Terry Renna)
This launch was previously Oct Oct. It was supposed to happen on For1, but when the Falcon rocket had two engines replaced, it was pushed back to November 1 due to contamination with the red lacquer used in the process.
Six-month mission U.S. This is the first flight of crew rotation on a commercial spacecraft.
Coronavirus and social isolation, protests against racial injustice and especially difficult election and campaign seasons: Astronauts have named their Dragon Capsule Releases in view of all the challenges of 2020. They stay apart for a week or two and safety precautions – masks and social distance – are taking it a long time ago.
Ending its relationship with Russia, NASA has certified Elon Musk’s space to carry astronauts.
At the Orbiter Space Laboratory, the Crew-1 team will join NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, who is already on the space station, to conduct extensive scientific research. “Crew-1 astronauts and fellow expedition 64 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will study hundreds of microgravity during their mission, they will also carry new science hardware and experiments with them inside Crew Dragon,” NASA said in a statement. Was.
Astronauts will investigate food physiology, conduct student-made experiments on genes in space and grow roots, as well as the interaction between microbes and rocks in microbes.
Other experiments include the use of thumb drive-sized devices containing human cells to study the effects of space on human organs and changes in cardiovascular cells and tissues in microgravity. Experiments will also be conducted on NASA’s next pay-generation spacesuit, the Exploration Extravascular Mobility Unit (xEMU).
The mission is another important milestone for the U.S. space program following the Demo-2 flight earlier this year.
On Aug. 2, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behenken parted the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft down into the Gulf of Mexico, ending their two-month space journey.
The mission marked the first time astronauts have landed on American soil since the final space shuttle flight in 2011. Amid the hype, the Demo-2 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30 over a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
After the end of the space shuttle program, the USA relied on a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome to give astronauts access to space. Russia approaches to send an astronaut into space. 75 million U.S. The Associated Press reports that the last Soyuz ticket cost અમેરિકા 90 million to the United States.
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