12.03.2016 21:46
NASA plans to abandon the help of Russia to send its astronauts to the ISS. By 2017, the company SpaceX and Boeing have to build their own spacecraft, which will allow the United States to do without Russian ships. However, expect a complete cessation of cooperation between Russia and the United States in the space sector is not worth it, experts say.
NASA will begin sending its astronauts into orbit without the help of Russia in 2017. This was stated by the head of the US space agency, Charles Bolden. At the same time their own start-ups allow the US save. Now NASA pays Roskosmos for $ 70 million for each member of the crew when it is sent to the ISS. A flight to their ships will cost the agency at $ 58 million. The development of the spacecraft will be engaged in company SpaceX and Boeing. Now the US is forced to use Russian spacecraft “Soyuz” in the delivery of astronauts on the International Space Station. However, NASA head Charles Bolden expressed the hope that in two years he will not have to sign checks for the Russian Space Agency, says “Kommersant».
«All this time we have worked hard in order to put the space launches in the US territory and get rid of dependence on Russia for flights to the International space station. We would not be here today if not for the company SpaceX and Boeing, which received a major problem, and thanks to which we intend to carry out its space launches. We plan to test his ship in February 2017, the first orbital launch without crew on board in April of the same year, and in July held a manned mission, “- said Bolden
In April last year. Moscow’s worsening relations between Washington and NASA announced the suspension of cooperation with the Russian Space Agency. An exception was made only for the ISS program. Later, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry in Russia, suggested that NASA «deliver its astronauts to the ISS using the trampoline.” For organizations launching astronauts on their own ships Americans have been going for many years, and most likely in 2017. The plans will actually be implemented. It noted academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. Tsiolkovsky Alexander Zheleznyakov
«Competition for the creation of an operational spacecraft to deliver astronauts to the ISS was announced several years ago, and last year Americans have defined the winners:. Company SpaceX and Boeing, which should build spaceships. Plans quite real, at least, Boeing in 2017 really in a position to create a new manned spacecraft and launch regular flights to the ISS. The Americans, due to some political reasons, seek to get rid of dependence on the delivery of astronauts on the ISS, “- he said” Kommersant the FM “Zheleznyakov
According to the plans of the American space agency, the two companies -. SpaceX and the Boeing – will create at least two transport ships, each at fault case. NASA Waiver of Roscosmos transportation services to the ISS crew members does not mean a complete rupture of relations between Russia and the United States in the space industry. It noted editor and correspondent for the magazine “News of Cosmonautics” Andrey Krasilnikov
«It is necessary to bear in mind one thing. These additional orders from NASA in the form of two ships with their astronauts that we have to do, is charged space rocket corporations and slightly divert resources from other, more important matters, including the lunar program. In principle, we are not only tied the ISS with NASA’s cooperation, and interplanetary stations, too, we have tools to deliver, including a program for sending of RD-180 and RD-181. It seems to me that only cooperation on the ISS will not be limited, “- says Krasilnikov
In September 2014, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed with SpaceX and Boeing a contract worth $ 6.8 billion.. Under its terms, the company must ensure the delivery of astronauts on the ISS.
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