Dragon v2 (SpX-DM2) – Falcon 9 (B1058.1) – Kennedy LC-39A – 27.05.2020, 20:32 UTC

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NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 Interviews with Astronaut Robert Behnken

NASA Video

2 мая 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0amrcBE0Jgs (32:28)

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/03/spacex-aces-last-dragon-parachute-test-before-crew-launch/

SpaceX aces last Dragon parachute test before crew launch
May 3, 2020 | Stephen Clark


A Crew Dragon mass simulator descends under four main parachutes during a drop test Friday. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX completed Friday the last drop test of the Dragon crew capsule's parachutes before the first launch of astronauts on the human-rated ship May 27, while technicians at Cape Canaveral have mated the spacecraft's crew module with its unpressurized trunk section.

The drop test fr om a C-130 cargo plane Friday was the 27th and final test of the "Mark 3" parachute design SpaceX will use for the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Drogue parachutes and then four main chutes unfurled fr om a test vehicle designed to mimic the Crew Dragon's weight during return to Earth.

SpaceX said in a tweet that the parachute test moves the Crew Dragon "one step closer" to flying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station, "and safely returning them back to Earth.

Meanwhile, SpaceX's Dragon processing team at Cape Canaveral have connected the spaceship's pressurized crew module with the spacecraft's rear trunk, which generates electricity through body-mounted solar panels and houses radiators for thermal control in orbit.

The parachute and spacecraft processing milestones kick off a busy month of preparations ahead of the the Crew Dragon's launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for May 27 fr om pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The test flight will head for the International Space Station, wh ere Behnken and Hurley will live and work for one-to-four months before returning to Earth for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just off Florida's East Coast.

The launch later this month will mark the first time astronauts have flown into Earth orbit from a U.S. spaceport since the retirement of the space shuttle in July 2011.

"My heart is sitting right here (motioning to throat), and I think it's going to stay there until we get Bob and Doug safely back from the International Space Station," said Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, in a press conference Friday. "But between now and then, there's still work to do."

NASA has awarded SpaceX more than $3.1 billion since 2011 to develop, test and fly the Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX has put in its own funding, but Shotwell could not provide a figure Friday for the level of internal funds SpaceX has spent on developing the crew capsule.

The public-private partnership is a hallmark of NASA's strategy since the end of the space shuttle program to commercialize transportation to and from low Earth orbit, beginning with cargo services for the space station pioneered by SpaceX's Dragon capsule and the Cygnus supply ship owned by Northrop Grumman, formerly known as Orbital ATK.

"This is a new generation, a new era in human spaceflight," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "And when I say it's new what I mean is, NASA has long had this idea that we need to purchase, own and operate hardware to get to space. In the past that has been true, but now, in this new era ... NASA has an ability to be a customer, one customer of many customers in a very robust commercial marketplace in low Earth orbit."

NASA selected Boeing alongside SpaceX in 2014 to design and build new commercial spaceships to ferry astronauts to and from the space station. Boeing's Starliner ship is unlikely to fly with astronauts until early 2021 after an unpiloted test flight in December encountered software trouble, preventing the capsule from docking with the space station.

Bridenstine said NASA and SpaceX are continuing preparations for the Crew Dragon test flight — designated Demo-2 — amid the coronavirus pandemic while introducing new physical distancing guidelines for the astronauts and support teams.

"We're going to do it in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic," Bridenstine said. "I'm going to tell you that this is a high-priority mission for the United States of America. We, as a nation, have not had our own access to the International Space Station for nine years."

In the time since the last shuttle flight, all astronauts traveling to the space station have flown aboard Russian Soyuz capsules. In the most recent agreement with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, NASA paid the Russian government more than $80 million per round-trip seat on the Soyuz spacecraft.

NASA's inspector general last year reported the agency is paying SpaceX approximately $55 million per Crew Dragon seat.

Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA's commercial crew program, said Friday that NASA and SpaceX engineers are "making sure that all the Is are dotted and Ts are crossed" in preparation for the Crew Dragon launch.

In parallel with hardware preparations at the Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX and NASA engineers are completing pre-flight data analyses, safety assessments and readiness reviews.

The work in the coming weeks will make sure SpaceX and NASA "are ready for this important mission to safely fly Bob and Doug up to the International Space Station, serve as a lifeboat, and return them to their families," Lueders said.

"This is a humbling job," she said. "I think we're up to it."

Behnken, 49, will serve as joint operations commander for the Demo-2 mission, responsible for rendezvous, docking, undocking and other activities at the International Space Station. Hurley, 53, will be the spacecraft commander, responsible for launch, landing and recovery, according to NASA.

Both astronauts joined NASA's astronaut corps in 2000, and each has flown twice on space shuttle missions. Behnken and Hurley are also both married to other astronauts.

"I think we have a different perspective of the importance of coming to Florida, launching again on an American rocket from the Florida coast," Behnken said. "And generations of people who maybe didn't get a chance to see a space shuttle launch, getting a chance again to see human spaceflight in our own backyard, if you will, is pretty exciting to be a part of.

"I think that's the thing that's most exciting for me, as well as on my first flight, I didn't have a small child," he said. "I didn't have a son, so I'm really excited to share the mission with him and have him have a chance to be old enough at six to see it and share it with me when I get home and while I'm on orbit."


Astronauts Doug Hurley (left) and Bob Behnken (right) pose for a photograph at launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before the launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test in January. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Hurley piloted the shuttle Atlantis on the final space shuttle mission in July 2011.

"It's well past time to be launching an American rocket from the Florida coast to the International Space Station, and I am certainly honored to be part of it," Hurley said.

"We would be asked questions along the lines of, well, the space program is over because the shuttle is not flying," Hurley said. "And that certainly was not the case. We've had people on board the International Space Station since the fall of 2000. And we continue to fly to the space station on Soyuz vehicles. So part of it was just a lack of understanding by the public as far as what we were continuing to do as an agency, but it was also the time it took to develop new vehicles in order to take their place, take the shuttle's place, to get folks to and from the International Space Station from the United States."

Once Behnken and Hurley return to Earth, NASA will formally certify the Crew Dragon for regular crew rotation flights to the space station, each carrying four astronauts. Another Crew Dragon is scheduled for launch later this year with three NASA astronauts and a Japanese space flier.

The Dragon crew has essentially been in quarantine since March, when the threat of coronavirus interrupted daily life for millions of Americans. Behnken and Hurley will begin a formal quarantine protocol next week, then spend a few days inside a controlled facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston before flying to Kennedy in a NASA aircraft May 20.

The astronauts will participate in a final integrated simulation Monday with NASA and SpaceX ground controllers and mission managers.

"Then we start a quarantine process which escalates as we get closer to launch," Hurley said. "And we also get some off time to kind of get everything in our lives sort of squared away since we've been busy getting ready for this flight, and we are likely to be in space for a few months."

"We have a few more sims with SpaceX, we'll have some proficiency sims later on, before we go down to Kennedy," Hurley said. "And then we'll get down to Kennedy around six or seven days before launch and then spend the rest of the time (in Florida) prepping from that location in the astronaut crew quarters down there."

SpaceX plans a flight test readiness review May 8, followed by a NASA-led test readiness review May 11.

Lueders said Friday that NASA has reviewed SpaceX's investigation into an engine failure that occurred on a Falcon 9 launch in March. One of the rocket's nine Merlin engines shut down prematurely during a launch with 60 Starlink Internet satellites, but the rocket overcame the malfunction and still delivered the payloads to their intended orbit.

"We're finishing testing on some other launch vehicle components," Lueders said. "We have reviewed the anomaly resolution of the Starlink launch and actually have cleared the engines on our vehicle for that failure, so that actually is behind us right now.

"But like everybody knows, the spacecraft is still processing, the launch vehicle is still processing, and as you're processing vehicles there are little issues that come up that we have to work through," Lueders said. "Most of our human certification activities are being completed with this mission, so the team is going through really about 95 percent of the human-rating certification on this mission."

In mid-May the Dragon spacecraft is expected to be transferred from a processing facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to the nearby Kennedy Space Center, wh ere the crew capsule will be attached to its Falcon 9 launcher inside a hangar near the southern perimeter of pad 39A.


The Crew Dragon spacecraft's pressurized module has been mated with the ship's unpressurized trunk section at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX

Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to fly to Florida's Space Coast on May 20.

A test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled around May 22, followed the next day by a "dry dress" rehearsal when the astronauts will put on their black and white SpaceX flight suits and strap inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft at the launch pad.

A launch readiness review is scheduled for May 25.

On May 27, Behnken and Hurley will again put on their flight suits inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy, the same facility wh ere Apollo and shuttle astronauts prepared for launch. They will ride inside a Tesla Model X from the O&C Building to pad 39A, passing by the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and the Press Site on the way to the seaside launch complex.

They will begin boarding the Crew Dragon spaceship around three hours before liftoff. SpaceX's ground crew will close the Dragon's side hatch and evacuate the pad before fueling of the Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants.

SpaceX's sleek crew access arm, installed on pad 39A in 2018, will retract around 42 minutes before liftoff. The Dragon's powerful abort engines will be armed 37 minutes prior to launch, giving the astronauts the ability to escape an explosion or other emergency during fueling of the Falcon 9 rocket.

Kerosene and liquid oxygen will begin flowing into the two-stage launcher 35 minutes before liftoff, which is timed for 4:32 p.m. EDT (2032 GMT) on May 27.

Assuming liftoff occurs May 27, the Crew Dragon is slated to autonomous dock with the International Space Station on May 28 at approximately 11:29 a.m. EDT (1529 GMT).

Hurley and Behnken will take over manual control of the spaceship at multiple points during the Dragon's trip to the space station, testing out their ability to fly the capsule using novel touchscreen controls in the cockpit.

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DM-2 Crew Interviews – Robert Behnken

NASA Video

4 мая 2020 г.

With the first mission to return human spaceflight launches to American soil now targeted to lift off May 27, NASA astronauts and Demo-2 crew members Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley shared their thoughts and experiences prior to their historic mission. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is a flight test with NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft set to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Interviews were recorded on April 17, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/embed/R9XSwjY3wxA (39:33)

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DM-2 Crew Interviews – Douglas Hurley

NASA Video

4 мая 2020 г.

With the first mission to return human spaceflight launches to American soil now targeted to lift off May 27, NASA astronauts and Demo-2 crew members Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley shared their thoughts and experiences prior to their historic mission. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is a flight test with NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft set to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Interviews were recorded on April 17, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6acHHmaL5o (37:43)

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NASA and SpaceX prepare to #LaunchAmerica

NASA

9 мая 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5EgRrAK8_HQ (1:46)

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Simulator of Crew Dragon docking with @space_station
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Crew Dragon missions will autonomously dock and undock with the space station, but crew can take manual control of the spacecraft if necessary

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/05/12/crew-dragon-displays-and-crew-spacesuits-ready-for-mission-to-space-station/

Crew Dragon Displays and Crew Spacesuits Ready for Mission to Space Station

Anna Heiney
Posted May 12, 2020 at 2:00 pm


NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: SpaceX

NASA and SpaceX have worked side-by-side, including through detailed simulations with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley who will first fly on Crew Dragon, to develop and assess the spacecraft's control system and the spacesuit the crew will wear during the NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.


Hurley, foreground, and Behnken participate in a full simulation of launch and docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft in SpaceX's flight simulator, March 19 and 20, 2020. Photo credit: SpaceX

SpaceX released a docking simulator Behnken and Hurley have used during training for the return of human spaceflight to the U.S. soil to the space station.

Crew Dragon's system includes touch screens and physical manual control options with robust fault tolerance built into the system. The touch screens have been tuned to operate with and without the SpaceX spacesuit gloves to high reliability. The control system has been thoroughly tested during the hundreds of hours of training and joint simulations with the crew in both suited and non-suited situations to demonstrate full functionality over the entire expected operating range of Crew Dragon. While the spacecraft will autonomously dock and undock with the space station, the crew onboard can take manual control if necessary.

The spacesuit is custom-made for each passenger aboard Crew Dragon and is designed to be functional, lightweight, and to offer protection from potential depressurization. A single connection point on the suit's thigh attaches life support systems, including air and power connections. The helmet is custom manufactured using 3D printing technology and includes integrated valves, mechanisms for visor retraction and locking, and microphones within the helmet's structure. The custom-tailored suits include touchscreen compatible gloves, a flame-resistant outer layer and provides pressurization with a controlled environment for the crew in atypical situations, such as cabin depressurization. The suit also routes communications and cooling systems to the astronauts during flight.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/05/12/japanese-resupply-ship-spacex-crew-dragon-nearing-launch-dates/

Japanese Resupply Ship, SpaceX Crew Dragon Nearing Launch Dates
Mark Garcia
Posted May 12, 2020 at 2:07 pm


Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle (left) and the SpaceX Crew Dragon (right) are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station this month.

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The HTV-9 will arrive at the station on May 25 ...

Just two days later, NASA will launch the first crew from the United States since 2011 aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will take a 19-hour trip to the station while testing systems inside the Crew Dragon. It will automatically dock on May 28 to the International Docking Adapter located on the Harmony module's forward port. After the hatches open, the duo will join the Expedition 63 crew to ramp up science and maintenance operations aboard the orbiting lab.

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Компания SpaceX опубликовала симулятор стыковки корабля Crew Dragon к МКС
02:45 13.05.2020

МОСКВА, 13 мая - РИА Новости. Американская компания SpaceX Илона Маска презентовала программу, позволяющую любому желающему попытаться осуществить стыковку пилотируемого корабля Crew Dragon с Международной космической станцией.

Симулятор стыковки, расположенный на сайте iss-sim.spacex.com, предлагает почувствовать себя экипажем Crew Dragon при причаливании к МКС.

SpaceX отмечает, что в программе используется интерфейс, аналогичный применяемому на корабле. Симулятор даёт возможность любому желающему управлять ориентацией и движением Crew Dragon с соблюдением необходимого скоростного режима.

"Движение в космосе медленное и требует терпения и точности", - говорится в аннотации к программе.

В 2011 году была выведена из эксплуатации американская многоразовая пилотируемая транспортная система Space Shuttle. После этого экипажи на МКС доставляют только российские корабли "Союз". В США для отправки астронавтов на станцию разработаны новые пилотируемые корабли: Crew Dragon - компанией SpaceX, Starliner - компанией Boeing.

В марте 2019 года корабль Crew Dragon совершил первый испытательный беспилотный полет на МКС. В декабре 2019 года первый такой полет выполнил корабль Starliner, но по техническим причинам его стыковка с МКС была отменена.

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На 27 мая намечается старт первого корабля Crew Dragon с экипажем в составе астронавтов НАСА Дугласа Херли и Роберта Бенкена. Запуск планируется осуществить на ракете-носителе Falcon 9 из Космического Центра имени Кеннеди (штат Флорида).

Стыковка корабля с МКС предполагается 28 мая. Длительность испытательного полёта составит три-четыре месяца.

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Компания SpaceX опубликовала симулятор стыковки корабля Crew Dragon к МКС  
 02:45 13.05.2020

 МОСКВА, 13 мая - РИА Новости . Американская компания SpaceX Илона Маска презентовала программу, позволяющую любому желающему попытаться осуществить стыковку пилотируемого корабля Crew Dragon с Международной космической станцией.

Симулятор стыковки, расположенный на сайте  iss-sim.spacex.com , предлагает почувствовать себя экипажем Crew Dragon при причаливании к МКС.

SpaceX отмечает, что в программе используется интерфейс, аналогичный применяемому на корабле. Симулятор даёт возможность любому желающему управлять ориентацией и движением Crew Dragon с соблюдением необходимого скоростного режима.

Хороший симулятор. Пристыковался с первой попытки)

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/05/13/spacex-demo-2-crew-members-enter-preflight-quarantine/

SpaceX Demo-2 Crew Members Enter Preflight Quarantine

Anna Heiney
Posted May 13, 2020 at 12:14 pm


NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: SpaceX

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley entered quarantine Wednesday, May 13, in preparation for their upcoming flight to the International Space Station on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission. They'll lift off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carried by the company's Falcon 9 rocket two weeks later at 4:33 pm Eastern Wednesday, May 27, from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, people all over the world recently have experienced varying degrees of quarantine – a period of isolation from others to prevent the spread of contagious illness. However, for crews getting ready to launch, "flight crew health stabilization" is a routine part of the final weeks before liftoff for all missions to the space station.

Behnken and Hurley will be the first American astronauts to fly to the station aboard an American spacecraft launched from American soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. The Demo-2 flight is an end-to-end test of SpaceX's crew transportation system, part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. They'll meet up with the Expedition 63 crew already in residence aboard the orbiting laboratory: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.

Spending the final two weeks before liftoff in quarantine helps ensure the Demo-2 crew arrives healthy, protecting themselves and their colleagues already on the station.

Since Hurley and Behnken are training side by side and will be working and living as a team on the space station with their crewmates, they're unable to maintain a six-foot distance. NASA's quarantine rules are designed to protect astronaut crews while allowing them to continue working closely together, by limiting who can be in close proximity to them and ensuring they stay in environments in which their exposure to contagions or other hazardous materials can be tightly controlled in advance of their launch.

If they are able to maintain quarantine conditions at home, crew members can choose to quarantine from there until they travel to Kennedy Space Center. If for some reason they aren't able to maintain quarantine conditions at home – for instance, if a family member living with them isn't able to maintain quarantine because of their job or school requirements – they have the option of living in the Astronaut Quarantine Facility at Johnson Space Center until they leave for Kennedy Space Center.

Some additional safeguards have been added because of the coronavirus. For example, anyone who will come on site or interact with the crew during the quarantine period, as well as any VIPs, will be screened for temperature and symptoms. Hurley and Behnken, as well as those in direct, close contact with the crew will be tested twice for the virus as a precaution.

Health stabilization procedures were introduced for the Apollo program, in which NASA astronauts left low-Earth orbit to journey to the Moon, and have continued through the shuttle and International Space Station programs.

Behnken and Hurley will remain in quarantine after their arrival at Kennedy on May 20. Liftoff from Kennedy's historic Launch Pad 39A is targeted for May 27 at 4:33 p.m. EDT.

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14 МАЯ, 00:54
Члены экипажа американского корабля Crew Dragon ушли на предполетный карантин

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 14 мая. /ТАСС/. Астронавты Даглас Харли и Роберт Бенкен в рамках подготовки к запланированному на 27 мая запуску пилотируемого космического корабля Crew Dragon компании SpaceX к Международной космической станции начали в среду предполетный карантин.

Как сообщило на своем сайте Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA), "действующие правила карантина разработаны таким образом, чтобы обеспечить защиту экипажей, но в то же время дать астронавтам возможность работать совместно в условиях, когда контакты с ними ограничены". Астронавты могут находиться в карантине либо у себя дома, если для этого есть соответствующие условия, либо в Центре пилотируемых полетов имени Джонсона в Хьюстоне (штат Техас), прежде чем они направятся на космодром на мысе Канаверал. Как указывается в сообщении NASA, астронавты продолжат карантин на космодроме, куда прибудут 20 мая.

Старт корабля намечен на 27 мая в 16:32 по времени Восточного побережья США (23:32 мск), а стыковка с МКС - на 28 мая.

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Crew Dragon - модификация грузового корабля Dragon, который уже доставляет грузы на МКС. В автоматическом режиме этот корабль был отправлен к станции с помощью ракеты-носителя Falcon-9 2 марта и пристыковался к ней на следующий день.

NASA прекратило пилотируемые полеты в 2011 году после завершения программы использования возвращаемых кораблей Space Shuttle. С тех пор астронавты доставляются на МКС российскими "Союзами". Первоначально предполагалось, что американские коммерческие корабли начнут осуществлять пилотируемые полеты в 2017 году.

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Jim Bridenstine @JimBridenstine 2 ч. назад

Here's some @Tesla news that everyone should love. Check out the Model X that will carry @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug to the launchpad for the Demo-2 mission! #LaunchAmerica

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Астронавтов НАСА на стартовую площадку доставит внедорожник Tesla
01:17 14.05.2020

ВАШИНГТОН, 14 мая - РИА Новости. Астронавтов НАСА Дугласа Херли и Роберта Бенкена к ракете, на которой они отправятся в первый с 2011 года американский пилотируемый полет к МКС, повезет внедорожник Tesla Model X, сообщил в среду глава НАСА Джим Брайденстайн.

"Вот кое-какие хорошие новости, которые всем понравятся. Посмотрите на эту Model X, которая повезет Роберта Бенкена и Дугласа Херли на стартовую площадку миссии Deno-2!" - написал он в своем Twitter.

Сообщение сопровождено четырьмя фотографиями белого внедорожника, на передних дверях которого размещен круглый логотип НАСА, а на заднем стекле – его упрощенный вариант, который в управлении окрестили "червяком". Это лаконичная красная аббревиатура НАСА, которую многие годы не использовали и вернули специально для пилотируемого полета.

Старт сделанного SpaceX корабля Crew Dragon с экипажем из двух астронавтов планируется осуществить на ракете-носителе Falcon 9 из Космического Центра имени Кеннеди (штат Флорида) 27 мая.

Стыковка корабля с МКС предполагается 28 мая. Длительность испытательного полёта составит три-четыре месяца.

Спойлер

В 2011 году была выведена из эксплуатации американская многоразовая пилотируемая транспортная система Space Shuttle. После этого экипажи на МКС доставляют только российские корабли "Союз". В США для отправки астронавтов на станцию разработаны новые пилотируемые корабли: Crew Dragon - компанией SpaceX, Starliner - компанией Boeing.

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Отправляющийся на МКС экипаж НАСА дважды протестируют на COVID-19
02:01 14.05.2020

МОСКВА, 14 мая - РИА Новости. Астронавты НАСА Дуглас Херли и Роберт Бенкен, летящие в конце мая на Международную космическую станцию на корабле Crew Dragon компании SpaceX Илона Маска, сдадут два теста на коронавирус перед стартом, сообщило НАСА.

Ранее сообщалось, что на 27 мая намечается запуск первого корабля Crew Dragon с экипажем на ракете-носителе Falcon 9 из Космического центра имени Кеннеди (штат Флорида). Стыковка корабля с МКС планируется на 28 мая. Длительность испытательного полёта составит не более 119 суток.

"Некоторые дополнительные меры предосторожности были добавлены из-за коронавируса. К примеру, все, кто приедет на космодром или будет взаимодействовать с экипажем в период карантина, а также любые VIP-персоны, будут проверяться на наличие температуры и симптомов", - говорится в сообщении на сайте НАСА.

"Херли и Бенкен, а также находящиеся в непосредственном, тесном контакте с экипажем будут дважды проверены на наличие вируса в качестве меры предосторожности", - отмечается в сообщении.

НАСА также сообщило, что у экипажа уже начался период двухнедельного предстартового карантина.
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Отправляющийся на МКС экипаж НАСА дважды протестируют на COVID-19  
 02:01 14.05.2020

 МОСКВА, 14 мая - РИА Новости . Астронавты НАСА Дуглас Херли и Роберт Бенкен, летящие в конце мая на Международную космическую станцию на корабле Crew Dragon компании SpaceX Илона Маска, сдадут два теста на коронавирус перед стартом, сообщило НАСА.

Т.е. каждый астронавт сдаст тест?

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Интересно, а внедорожные катафалки Тесла выпускает, с фирменными нашлепками? Надо все случаи предусмотреть.

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SpaceX и NASA приглашают студентов со всего мира представить свои фотографии, которые будут летать вместе с астронавтами Бобом Бенкеном и Дагом Херли на Crew Dragon для демонстрации-2.
https://www.spacex.com/classof2020

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Joey Roulette @joroulette 13 мая

NASA's Doug Loverro says SpaceX's crew dragon capsule is mounted on Falcon 9 ahead of its maiden crewed flight on the 27th. ...

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Интересно, а внедорожные катафалки Тесла выпускает, с фирменными нашлепками? Надо все случаи предусмотреть.

Какие случаи?