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Space premiere. NASA resumes manned flights to the Space Station
With the spacecraft suspended by the coronavirus, NASA is sending people into space. For the first time in ten years, a manned capsule will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since July 2011, when they ended the space shuttle program and withdrew all rockets, the Americans have relied on the Russians to send their astronauts to the International Space Station, a service for which they paid tens of millions of dollars. A single Soyuz capsule flight with three people on board is estimated to be around $ 80 million.
Starting May 27, this could change. The Crew Dragon capsule is then scheduled to launch, with two astronauts on board. Both the capsule and the Falcon 9 rocket were developed by the company of famous billionaire Elon Musk, Space X. If the flight goes smoothly, Space X will become the first private company in history to send people into space.
The launch to the orbital outpost will take place, symbolically, from the same platform used for the Apollo missions. It will take approximately 24 hours for astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to arrive at the International Space Station, where another American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts await them.
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