US space truck to the ISS Dragon starts on Sunday – RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, June 28 – RIA Novosti. The American space truck to the ISS Dragon starts on Sunday, NASA said.

The device will orbit rocket Falcon 9 Launch which is scheduled for Sunday 17.21 MSK from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida).

The truck carries out its seventh mission to the ISS, the designated contract to design it with SpaceX NASA. It will deliver to the station about 2 tons of cargo: provisions, technical equipment and materials for scientific experiments. Of particular importance to the American side is delivery to the ISS docking port, which will be installed on it for future connections with the American manned spacecraft.

At the station and deliver the latest innovation from Microsoft – smart glasses HoloLens goggles. The device has not yet been received in the sale, so the astronauts will be the first who will be able to test them.

In the case of a timely and successful launch of the Dragon will reach the ISS on Tuesday. After several weeks in orbit apparatus must be to return to Earth with a cargo from the station.

The company SpaceX, is carrying out the flight and to develop Dragon and Falcon, hoping to once again test the technology, “landing” of the first stage of the rocket on a floating platform subsequent reusable. Earlier, three such experiment ended in failure.