WASHINGTON, May 2. Followed by Japan and the United States are going to revise the plans to send its astronauts to the ISS with the Expedition.
The source at Baikonur Tass did not rule out that the launch of manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-17M” with the crew of a new expedition to the ISS scheduled May 26, could be postponed due to the situation with the space truck “Progress”. As a part of the main crew of a new expedition – Russian Oleg Kononenko, Japanese and American Kimia Yui Chell Lindgren.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA has already declared that sending Yui the International Space Station may be delayed.
The US space agency NASA because of the accident of the Russian ship lost 300 kg valuable cargo, a source told “Interfax” at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. “It was in the interest of American equipment NASA. Approximately 300 kg,” – said the official.
The total weight of the load of 2.5 tons. In addition to the equipment, “the truck” had to deliver one ton of components needed for the sustenance of the ISS module “Zvezda”, including medical equipment, medicines, hygiene kits. On board there were also 420 liters of drinking water, oxygen and photographic equipment.
The cargo vehicle “Progress M-27M” launched on Tuesday, April 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using a launch vehicle “Soyuz-2.1a.” However, soon after the launch of the Mission Control Center specialists have not been able to receive telemetry information from the board. At the moment, the space truck makes unmanaged decayed. According to calculations of the Russian Space Agency, “Progress” should enter the atmosphere and burn up in the period from 5 to 7 May.
The cause of the accident “Progress” has not been established. It was reported that the separation of the truck from the third stage of the launch vehicle exploded.
Meanwhile, in the US today has been tested tourist spaceship New Shepard. NASA said that the American private company Blue Origin conducted the first test of a tourist ship. Its interior can accommodate six visitors.
The first launch took place from the Baikonur in Texas. New Shepard was able not only to successfully climb to an altitude of 93.6 km, and land successfully. True, the engine suffered a little space ship, but experts say that such a result is still very impressive.
The company Blue Origin has decided to make the dream of many people for space flight as follows: tourists sit in the cabin of the spacecraft , rocket lifts it to a height of 100 km, and then separated. Passengers also fly up and then, over time, gradually sink down into the ship, equipped with a kind of parachute.
When will the first set of tourist groups is unknown.
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