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Running American Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with the US Air Force base located near the launch site at Cape Canaveral (State Florida), rescheduled for Saturday, January 10th. This was reported by representatives of NASA TASS reported on 7 January. “Start will take place approximately at 04:47 Eastern Time USA (12:47 MSK), – said in a statement posted on the official website of the agency. – In case of a successful launch on Saturday, Dragon arrives at the ISS for docking on Monday, January 12 around 06:00 (14:00 MSK). ” As noted, if a Saturday start “truck” for some reason fails, a new opportunity to carry out this operation will be on Tuesday, January 13 approximately at 03:36 local time (11:36 MSK). In this case, docking with the ISS will be held on Thursday, January 15 around 06:00 (14:00 MSK). Earlier it was expected that the Dragon will be launched on Friday, January 9. Prior to t his, NASA and SpaceX tried to send a ship to the ISS on Tuesday, 6 of January. Scheduled for this time of the vehicle start, however, was canceled at the last minute due to technical problems. Chapter SpaceX Elon Musk said that the reason was incorrect operation elements of the second stage of the rocket Falcon-9. Dragon, is the world’s cargo spacecraft reusable, must be delivered to the International Space Station is about 2 tons of food, essentials and accessories for scientific experiments. On the space station to Earth, he should bring a variety of materials and equipment related to the conduct of research. Under contract with NASA worth $ 1.6 billion, Dragon has made four “regular” flight to the ISS, and must fly back eight times. It is expected that during the upcoming launch SpaceX will try to catch and keep the first stage of Falcon-9, which had previously always fallen into the Atlantic Ocean. To this end, the company intends to use a special of fshore platform, which must descend by parachute exhaust element of the carrier.
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