Repeatedly failed to fly, this weekend will again try Dragon traveling in space. The green light has been given by the U.S. space agency (NASA).
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| SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft. (Picture from: http://tommytoy.typepad.com/) |
Capsule conical tip of the pencil would like riding Falcon 9 rocket, which will take him into space. The launch is scheduled to take place on Saturday morning, 4:55 ET from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Actually, the Dragon is scheduled to fly on April 30, but the company owned by Elon Musk, PayPal founder and Tesla Motors, rescheduled until a week later. They argued that the software should check the return flight capsule.
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Falcon 9 rocket launch to the International Space Station (ISS). (Picture from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/) |
After repeated delays, a spokesman for SpaceX announced that it had asked for a target launch on May 19 from Cape Canaveral with a backup plan on May 22.
Decision to repeatedly delay the launch schedule was forced to do because SpaceX and NASA did not want to risk damaging the capsule space station ISS is worth U.S. $ 100 billion. They continually conduct an examination of the capsule and the Falcon 9 rocket.
Decision to repeatedly delay the launch schedule was forced to do because SpaceX and NASA did not want to risk damaging the capsule space station ISS is worth U.S. $ 100 billion. They continually conduct an examination of the capsule and the Falcon 9 rocket.
"SpaceX and NASA almost completed the process to ensure the performance of software," said SpaceX spokeswoman, Kirstin Brost Grantham, last week, "so far no problems found during the process, but given the complexity of this mission, we want to be extra careful."
This will be a demonstration launch for SpaceX in both Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program of NASA. After reaching orbit, the capsule carrying cargo to the ISS will join the space station when the system is running fine amalgamation.
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| Dragon capsule while separating from the 2nd stage rocket. (Picture from: http://www.space.com/) |
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| Dragon capsule approached the ISS and will be captured by robotic arm. (Picture from: http://cdn.physorg.com/) |
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| SpaceX Dragon docked at ISS. (Picture from: http://www.universetoday.com/) |
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| First commercial spaceflight to dock with ISS.(Picture from: KORAN TEMPO 3881) |
As an alternative, NASA developed a partnership with a number of private companies, like SpaceX, to build a commercial space flight, either for manned missions and space exploration is done by robots. SpaceX, which has an official name 'Space Exploration Technologies, NASA has pocketed a contract worth U.S. $ 1.6 billion to fly 12 missions, unmanned cargo delivery.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX, founded the company in 2002 with Tom Mueller. SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 1 rocket boosters and the Falcon, including a mission to send a satellite into earth orbit.
SpaceX not only serves as a "taxi" for NASA's space, but also plans to travel into space travel, even building a private space station one day. In realizing this idea of space tourism, SpaceX took Bigelow Aerospace.
Both companies were planning to mobilize an international initiative to explore the high interest of tasting experience of being in space. SpaceX plans to use the Dragon as the basis for the development of a capsule that could carry humans, both the ISS and to Mars.
"From the beginning, our aim is to make a capsule that can transport people," said SpaceX Crew Development and Commercial Manager, Garrett Reisman. Former NASA astronaut joined SpaceX in 2011 after the company successfully send and return the Dragon capsule from orbit. "I saw the game has changed," he said, "we are entering a new golden age." *** [SPACEX | AP | NASA | SPACE | TJANDRA DEWI | KORAN TEMPO 3881]
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