Three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will travel to space on a new date.
Launch between NASA and SpaceX. Photo: EFE.
Eighth launch of a commercial mission with crews of three Americans and one Russian NASA Y SpaceX want International Space Station (ISS). About to take off from Florida but Dragon Rocket's cancellation due to “high winds in the ascent corridor”.
This is the second time that this collaboration has been disrupted. however, A new launch is scheduled for March 3 at 10:53 p.m. local time on the US East Coast from the Kennedy Space Center. aboard the Dragon spacecraft Endeavor from Platform 39A in central Florida, powered by a Falcon 9 rocket.
Launch between NASA and SpaceX. Photo: EFE.
NASA astronauts on the new SpaceX Crew-8 commercial launch Matthew Dominique, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and cosmonaut of the Russian company Roscosmos, Alexander Grebenkin.
The NASA and SpaceX These commercial flights began in 2020, after the cancellation of the space shuttle program in 2011 allowed the United States to send astronauts from American soil again.
Launch between NASA and SpaceX. Photo: EFE.
Since the last launch of the space shuttle Atlantis into Earth orbit in 2011, the NASA It was forced to use only Russian launch systems such as the Soyuz to put its astronauts into orbit.
call Business team plan (CCB, in English) It aims to facilitate “safe, reliable and profitable human transportation” from the United States to and from the ISS through a partnership with American private industry.
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Mission of the Dragon spacecraft
This was the eighth orbital flight for a new crew, and the ninth manned spaceflight on the spacecraft. Dragon of SpaceX To ISS for CCP.
As in the previous works of the project, Astronauts will stay, live and work on the ISS for six months A total of 11 people are expected to be in the group for a few days.
NASA photo: Reuters.
For now, the current crew of the ISS, The seven members of Expedition 70 prepare to receive the Crew-8 quartet, It will be docked at the forward port of Harmony Block after about a day.
The new astronauts will explore many space phenomena to improve the lives of humans living on and off Earth. There, they will investigate the mechanisms behind neurological disorders and ways to prevent fluid changes in astronauts living in space..
They will also investigate How microgravity affects plant growth and the role of algae in enhancing life support systems of spacecraft.
Launch between NASA and SpaceX. Photo: Reuters.
At the ISS, they will release the crew of the ISS seven days after their arrival. SpaceX Crew-7 Jasmine Mokbeli, Andreas Mogensen, European Space Agency (ESA), Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese JAXA and Konstantin Borisov, Roscosmos.
The four members, who have been on the space station since August 27, will be disconnected from the space station in a single spacecraft. DragonEndurance.
