Mys Canaveral (USA) The Crew Dragon Endeavor launched the International Space Station (ISS) with the new inhabitants of Cape Canaveral today after a one-day delay, forced by bad weather. Among them is Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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The ship with a human crew first brought it to the orbit once used by the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle stage. She herself made her way to the ISS, and last May she carried a two-member test crew there.
The Crew-2 mission to the ISS will take less than 24 hours. Posdka m according to full arrive at the station on Saturday at 11:10 SEL.
Less than ten minutes after the start, the boat reached a distance of less than 200 kilometers and a speed of 27,000 kilometers per hour. Endeavor in five hours filled with five maneuvers, which direct it to the ISS orbit, which orbits about 400 kilometers from the Earth’s surface.
According to SpaceX, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which brought the crew to the orbit, was then easily shot at the Of Course I Still Love You platform in the Atlantic Award. SpaceX seeks to reduce the total cost of spaceflight by re-using some of the missiles.
Today, in addition to Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthurov and Shane Kimbrough and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoide sit on board the Endeavor.
McArthur is in the same place on the Crew Dragon, where her husband Robert Behnken sat on last May, who flew to the ISS during the very first mission of the spacecraft with a human crew together with his colleague Douglas Hurley. The watchful start marked the end of a decade at that time, in which the United States had to rely solely on the Russian ship Soyuz for the journey of the ISS crew.
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Astronauts said goodbye to their families this morning, and Behnken and their seven-year-old son accompanied McArthur. For the journey to the missiles, the crew then boarded Tesla emblems in three cars, which also belong to businessman Elon Musek, the owner of SpaceX. Musk can say goodbye to the crew from a safe distance due to fears of a possible coronavirus infection.
Astronauts led by Kimbrough will spend six months in space and stand at the station of a standing crew who is drilling on Earth in the center of his ship Crew Dragon. Until then, there will be a total of 11 people on the ISS and Russian cosmonauts, while the station has only seven beds. The two astronauts will be back on foot in two Crew Dragon ships connected to the ISS, then the two were then stored for a few days in makeshift locations at the station, which will be guided by missions according to the situation. It will have the atmosphere of a pyam verk, said Ben Stahl, the manager of the current mission, in five days.
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