NEW YORK, May 24. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Kachalin /. Another US launch of Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for July 16th. This was reported on Monday, US National Aeronautics and Space NASA.
According to him, “it will be the ninth flight of the ship” in the framework of the ISS supply contract. As usual, Dragon will be launched into space by a carrier rocket Falcon 9 with the US Air Force base located near the launch site at Cape Canaveral (Florida). The device will deliver into orbit the water products, scientific instruments and equipment, including “one of the two docking ports, which allow ships CST-100 Starliner manufacturing corporation Boeing and Dragon manufactured by SpaceX moored to the station at the time of delivery of the astronauts in the future”, clarified in NASA.
in the beginning of April to the ISS Dragon delivered a total of about three tons of cargo. The ship with the results of scientific experiments back to Earth on 11 May. Apparatus splashed down in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred kilometers from the city of Long Beach (CA). There he waited SpaceX chartered ships.
Dragon is the world’s only reusable cargo ship. Currently, in the US segment of the ISS operating NASA astronauts Timothy Kopra and Jeffrey Williams, and Briton Timothy Peak. In the Russian segment of the station bear watch cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, Ovchinin Alex and Oleg Skripochka.
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