WASHINGTON, December 19 – RIA Novosti. NASA on Friday placed a request to perform the second manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by the American company Boeing, said the agency.
” After receiving the certificate of NASA, each of the ships Boeing CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon will have to make two launches to the station each year. Accommodation is now an application for the mission is for us a course for a sustainable future aboard the space station, “- said the manager of a manned program NASA Katie Leyders.
NASA placing bids for the second manned mission to Boeing to the ISS, after obtaining the necessary certificates that are considered “important step”.
A similar step against the Boeing Company has been undertaken previously in May, and then in November, NASA placed an order for the implementation of the first manned flight by SpaceX. Dates of upcoming operations and that some of the companies will make a manned mission first, to be determined.
The contract with NASA, Boeing is building the ship CST-100 Starliner, SpaceX is developing a manned spacecraft on the basis of the cargo capsule Dragon.
According to the contract, the order to commit a mission must be placed NASA “for two or three years” before the actual flight, to each of us was enough time for production and assembly as the carrier rocket and the ship itself .
The first test flight of the new ship, which should return the US to launch its own crews to the ISS, to be held at the end of 2017. Each company has committed to perform up to six manned missions.
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