Three Americans - Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker - and Japan's Soichi Noguchi will take off at 7:27 pm on Sunday (0027 GMT on Monday).
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Four astronauts were set to launch the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the United States expects to be multi-movement missions after a profitable check-in flight in late spring.
Three Americans, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and the Japanese Soichi Noguchi will take off at 7:27 pm on Sunday (0027 GMT Monday) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In May, SpaceX completed a demonstration mission showing that it might want to bring astronauts to the ISS and deliver them safely to the lower back, thus ending almost a decade of dependence on Russia for the rocket tour. Soyuz.
"The story that is being made this time is that we are launching what we call an operational flight to the International Space Station," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Friday.
The launch will be attended by Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence.
The crew will dock at their destination around 11:00 pm Monday night (0400 GMT Tuesday), joining two Russians and an American aboard the station, and will stay for six months.
The Crew Dragon earlier this week grew to become the first spacecraft certified by NASA due to the fact that the space shuttle was nearly forty years old.
It's a capsule, comparable in shape to the spacecraft that preceded the house's shuttle, and its launch car is a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
At the end of their missions, Crew Dragon deploys parachutes and then splashes into the water, just like in the Apollo era.
NASA grew to become SpaceX and Boeing after shutting down the checkered area shuttle app in 2011, which failed in its most important wishes to make travel around the area low-cost and safe.
The company will have spent more than eight billion dollars on commercial crew software using 2024, in the hope that the private region can meet the needs of NASA in "low Earth orbit" so that it is free to focus attention. . in the missions of I Return to the Moon and then to Mars.
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, has overtaken its much older rival Boeing, whose program has flopped after a failed test of its unmanned Starliner last year.
"We want to have a seat swap where American astronauts can fly on Russian Soyuz rockets and Russian cosmonauts can fly on commercial crew vehicles," he said, explaining that it was necessary in case any of the programs were down for a period. of time.
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