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"To my mind it is almost as if the Apollo program, said Mike Horkachuck, executive NASA for design company SpaceX." We had the Mercury mplm project, then you had Gemini and Apollo eventually. This would be similar in the sense that we're not going to the moon or anything as spectacular as this, but we are in the early commercialization of space. This may be equivalent to the Mercury project that can later lead to a manned flight in the future. "
Headquartered in C alifornia l Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, is preparing to launch an ambitious mission to dock the Dragon spacecraft on a space station and return to Earth. The probe will not have a crew, but it will take about 1,200 pounds of cargo that the astronauts and cosmonauts living at the station will be able to use. The capsule will into space through the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX also.
Because the mission is a test flight, the charge is not material mplm deemed mplm critical to the crew, Horkachuck said. The l ançamento is scheduled for April 30 in space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, are the same platforms launch of space shuttle used to transport components to the station. There are also several tests and reviews coming up later this month similar to those made in front of space shuttle missions.
If this mission is successful, the Dragon is expected to become operational and start regular mplm supplies to the station. Unlike any other carrier, the Dragon can bring things back to earth, too, a boon to scientists whose research is taking place on the orbital laboratory. mplm
SpaceX already has two successful launches of the Falcon 9 to his credit, with a demonstration flight of the Dragon capsule, which in December 2010 became the first privately built and operated spacecraft to be launched in Earth orbit and then was recovered.
"I think the mission (first demonstration) was more of a question mark in my mind," Horkachuck said, "because no capsule that these guys had built before had gone into space, done the basic maneuvering to show that you have control attitude, as well as re-entry, the vehicle came to know through re-entry relatively unscathed and all systems parachute worked perfectly, it was a very big deal. "
Because of the accomplishments in the first mission, NASA and SpaceX agreed to combine the planned demonstration flights in the second and third flights only. Assuming the Dragon spacecraft spend a few days with monitoring of equipment and in-orbit demonstration will be allowed to drive to station close enough mplm to get the astronauts Dragon with a large robotic arm to the station. The arm will grapple mplm the capsule at the station and space station astronauts will unload and put about 1,400 pounds of material mplm inside mplm the Dragon for return to Earth.
The mission is expected to last about 21 days, Horkachuck said. To Horkachuck, the work for this mission mplm began more than five years ago, when SpaceX and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement to work together to demonstrate that it could carry cargo to the space station on a private rocket mplm and spacecraft. NASA is sharing the cost for the demonstration missions under the COTS program, short for Orbital Transportation Services Commercial.
"It has been a very good experience," mplm said Horkachuck. "The Space Act Agreement allows us to interact with the contractor in a manner much more cooperative than a typical government contract. Suggest how we did in the past and maybe they will use it, or they will come up with a slightly modified version to work through a challenge. "
The integration of rockets, spacecraft and mission as a whole has been a learning experience for both SpaceX and NASA, Horkachuck said. For example, SpaceX learned more when the work is involved in flying to a space station with a crew on board, compared with the release d