for the First time since 2011, takes an American spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts into space. The Crew Dragon is called the capsule of the private space travel company Spacex, was promoted on Saturday morning at 8.49 p.m. Swiss time, on a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit. Your destination is the ISS, the International space station.

for The unmanned test flight aims to show that the Spacex spacecraft astronauts can safely bring to the ISS and back. The Crew Dragon is based on the Dragon cargo vessel, Elon Musks company since 2012, supplies to the ISS flies.

The spacecraft was developed for the Commercial Crew program, the U.S. space Agency Nasa to return to the United States, the ability to send own astronauts into space. Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in July 2011, Nasa-astronauts to the ISS with the Russian Soyus space ships.

Ripley

the Fly will flies on Saturday in addition to 180 kilos is a Dummy by the name of Ripley freight, a reference to Sigourney weaver’s character from the “Alien”movies. He is wearing a black-and-white-Spacex is a space suit as we know it from Starman. This doll sat at the wheel of a red Tesla, and Spacex in February 2018 as Ballast in the framework of the test flight of the new Falcon Heavy rocket into space shot.

With the Starman Ripley, however, has little in common. In contrast to this it is equipped with countless Sensors. They are intended to measure the impact of the flight in the capsule on the human body. This is to ensure that spacecraft and space suit are sure.

the first manned flight in July

the Crew Dragon is scheduled to arrive on Sunday morgenbei the ISS. In contrast to the cargo version of the capsule is not captured by an ISS crew member and the robot arm, but conjoins directly to the space station. Another difference is the cargo version is that the solar panels are not retractable, but fixed in the outer shell are integrated. Should there be an incident at the Start, has the capsule 8 super Draco engines, to shoot the capsule out of the danger area.

This emergency system to be tested in the next flight. All goes well, will fly in July, the two Nasa astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley with the Spacex spacecraft into space. The manned space program in Nasa, brings the company out of Hawthorne, California, according to a 2014 contract for 2.6 billion dollars.

in addition to Spacex to transport Boeing for the Nasa astronauts to the ISS. The first test flight of their CST-100 star liner is scheduled for April. Boeing will use the Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance, a Joint Venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

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Created: 02.03.2019, 09:10 PM