The NASA formalized an order Friday the US-led mission SpaceX private group to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2017, like its competitor Boeing.
“The NASA left behind an important stage on Friday in expanding research opportunities aboard the ISS with the first custom made “the Californian group SpaceX” to send astronauts from US soil “into space, he said the space agency said in a statement.
The Dragon V-2 SpaceX must, from the end of 2017, carry astronauts to the ISS under a contract of 2,600 million dollars signed with NASA in 2014. Boeing also was chosen by agency to offer this service to their Starliner CST-100 capsule with a contract of $ 4,200 million.
The NASA announced that the mission concerned to Boeing in May, the company will appoint four missions , the statement said on Friday.
“The choice of the group will send a mission to the ISS will first be carried out later,” the statement said. Boeing had previously assured that your private capsule would be the first dock with the international space station in 2017.
The missions will begin in late 2017, “provided that service providers provide the necessary preparations” the US space agency said.
SpaceX was founded by billionaire Elon Musk, co-founder also of electric luxury cars Tesla and Paypal.
When the capsule Dragon V-2 ” carry NASA astronauts to the international space station in 2017, the last ride aboard the safest and most reliable spacecraft ever flown, “said SpaceX president, Gwynne Shotwell, cited in the NASA statement.
SpaceX had suffered a serious setback on June 28 when his Falcon 9 rocket, the capsule uninhabited Dragon should supply the ISS, exploded shortly after takeoff.
United States put end its program of spacecraft in 2011. While waiting for the private sector, using funds from NASA, develop the necessary vehicles to transport astronauts, it depends entirely on Russian Soyuz capsules.
“It is important to have robust and sound capabilities of at least two US groups to send astronauts and equipment” to the ISS, he said a senior official of NASA, Kathy Lueders said in the statement. (I)
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