Picture: The four astronauts who will take the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the first commercial manned space mission. From left to right are NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Oliver and Mike Hopkins and Cosmos Japan Astronaut Soichi Noguchi
Netease Technology News on August 15th, according to foreign media reports, on Friday, local time in the United States, NASA and SpaceX, a US space exploration technology company, announced that they have tentatively scheduled to execute the Crew Dragon spacecraft on October 23. The first commercial astronaut launch mission, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station. There, they will stay for 6 months to conduct research and perform related tasks.
The mission, named Crew-1, will carry NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration and Development Institutional astronaut Soichi Noguchi (Soichi Noguchi). This will mark the first scheduled manned flight mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft after the completion of the development and test plan and certification.
In this certification process, the last important milestone of the Crew Dragon spacecraft is Demo-2. The mission was launched on May 30, and NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded the spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Although Hurley and Benken successfully returned to Earth earlier this month, technically, this is still part of the qualification process for the Crew Dragon and SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. When these spacecraft are certified for manned spaceflight, they can begin routine mission operations. And it all started with Crew-1.
NASA and SpaceX previously planned to launch Crew-1 in late September. However, NASA said that the one-month postponement is to cooperate with the launch of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which will also be launched to the International Space Station in October. This will allow “crew rotation” on the space station and best meet the requirements of the International Space Station. demand. Crew-1’s six-month timetable means that the Crew Dragon spacecraft will dock until late April, overlapping with the Crew-2 mission scheduled for launch in the spring of 2021.
Before this launch, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins (Kate Rubins) and Russian Space Agency astronauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchikov (Sergey Ryzhikov) Kud-Sverchkov will take the Soyuz spacecraft to the space station, while NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner Vagner) will leave the space station.
NASA stated that the agency has yet to conduct a comprehensive review of the data and eligibility criteria for the Crew Dragon and Demo-2 missions. Although this final test seems to be almost exactly the same as the original plan, it will still be carefully checked by NASA and SpaceX staff to ensure that the situation is safe. If this data review goes well and Crew-1 can be launched in October as planned, then Crew-2 should be carried out next spring, and four more astronauts will be sent to the former Ang International Space Station to replace Crew-1’s astronauts. Another trip to science and the space station.
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