Boeing and SpaceX will receive a contract for NASA’s human spaceflight – RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 – RIA Novosti. Boeing and SpaceX will receive a contract for manned missions the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the first flight is scheduled for 2017, said Tuesday head of department Charles Bolden.

After the end of the program, “space shuttle” Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States used to fly into orbit, Russian rocket “Soyuz” and pay the Russian side for each execution of 71 million dollars.

“We fulfill the promise of President Obama’s return to space launches to the United States and end our dependence on Russian,” – said Bolden.

According to him, the initial cost of the project to develop a manned spacecraft, which will be fly on the International Space Station, will be about $ 6.8 billion. Both companies will use the system on the basis of landers-capsules. Boeing presented its project to the competition spaceship CST-100 and SpaceX – ship design Dragon.

Bolden said the United States expects to launch the first independent manned mission to the end of 2017 c Cape Canaveral, Florida. Head of commercial manned NASA Liders Kathy explained that the contract provides for up to six manned missions to the International Space Station, in each mission will involve four astronauts.

The new ship the scientific potential of the ISS should increase by about half, calculated at NASA. “In addition, it can serve as a rescue capsule space station for up to 210 days,” – said Liders.

After the United States imposed sanctions against Russia because of the annexation of the Crimea and the events surrounding the Ukraine, they did exception for those projects that are of interest themselves, in particular for the ISS. Meanwhile, Russia’s deputy prime minister for defense industry Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter suggested that Americans “to take its astronauts to the ISS using the trampoline”.

Space rocket (RCN) “Soyuz-FG” with manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-08M”