An unmanned space capsule is Sunday at noon been linked with the space station, the ISS, informs the american space administration, Nasa.
Rumkapslen ‘Crew Dragon’, which was launched by rumfartsselskabet SpaceX on Saturday, returning after the plan back to Earth on Friday. For the time will have been associated with the space station in five days.
the Launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon’ is a rehearsal for the Nasa prior to the launch of two astronauts later in the year.
The private company SpaceX has previously sent several cargo carriers to the ISS. But the ‘Crew Dragon’ is the first capsule built to carry humans – and the first, who even have been able to link up to the ISS without help from the due to the robotic arm.
the space Station is in orbit around the Earth in about 400 km altitude with a speed of 28,000 kilometers an hour. This means that it reaches around the planet in 90 minutes.
Rumkapslen was two times around the Earth, after it was launched from the Kennedy Rumfartscenter at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday morning (Danish time).
There is a crew of three people on the space station – the american Anne McClain, the Russian Oleg Kononenko and the canadian David Saint-Jacques.
On the table in the rumkapslen is only a doll by the name of Ripley. It is wearing a space suit and sitting at a window. Affixed to the sensors on its head, neck and spine, as it becomes exposed to the forces that a human being is exposed to on a mission.
the Doll is named after the person who is the actor Sigourney Weaver plays in the Alien movies.
– This mission has a crucial importance. We are on the eve of again to send american astronauts into space in the american rockets, from american soil for the first time since rumfærgeprogrammet was set in 2011, said administrator Jim Bridenstine from Nasa on Saturday.
Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken followed the launch from Cape Canaveral. They will later this year be sent into space to test the ‘SpaceX Demo 2’.
SpaceX was created in 2002 by Elon Musk, who is best known for being behind the elbilfabrikanten Tesla.
the UNITED states retired for eight years since its last space shuttle, Nasa has been dependent on Russian Soyuz vessels to get the astronauts sent up to the space station.
