SpaceX via YouTube This will expose the capsule's heat shield. The actual details are still being worked out.”Bowersox took over as acting head of NASA’s human spaceflight efforts last month after the abrupt resignation of Doug Loverro, who served in the role for six months before leaving the agency. We’ll look at the readiness of that vehicle, and in a month or so, we’ll be able to make a decision as to how long to keep this vehicle in orbit.”NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are training for the Crew-1 mission.
In some cases, the wind limit for splashdown could be as low as 9 knots.“The Demo-2 vehicle has a little bit tighter restrictions on its landing wind requirements, so we’ll need to provide extra lead time for the weather possibilities, but I think it will all work out in August,” Bowersox said. An unpiloted Starliner test flight was cut short before docking with the space station in December, and Boeing plans to fly a second demonstration mission later this year before a test flight with a crew on-board in early 2021.Steve Stich, deputy manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, said May 31 that space agency managers will evaluate the readiness of the next Crew Dragon spacecraft — for the Crew-1 mission — before deciding when to bring Hurley and Behnken home.“Not only are we looking at this particular vehicle, we’re also looking ahead to Crew-1,” Stich said. “August is often a light wind month in the parts of the Gulf (of Mexico) and the east coast of Florida that we’re looking at landing, so I think we’ll be able to find a good opportunity in there.”But officials have not set a target date for the landing.
The landing zones are located roughly 24 nautical miles, or 27 statute miles, off the east coast of Florida, with a backup site in the Gulf of Mexico south of Pensacola.The Demo-2 test flight is a precursor to operational crew rotation missions to the space station using the Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX also has agreements with SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon under contract to NASA, but the company is free to use the spacecraft for commercial flights without NASA involvement.NASA has a similar contract with Boeing for development of the Starliner crew capsule, which has yet to fly with astronauts. It has had to rely instead on Russia and its Soyuz spacecraft, launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Nasa hopes to bring this near-eight year gap in capability to an end with the introduction of two new commercial transportation systems - the Dragon and another vehicle being developed by aerospace giant Boeing.The first crewed flight of the Dragon could occur as soon as July, although this target date is likely to slip into the summer as engineers work through the post-flight analysis.Splashdown occurred at about 08:45 EST (13:45 GMT). SpaceX has changed some of the outer composite panels to make that a little stronger.”“It also has the capability not only dock to the forward port of the space station, but it can go to the zenith (space-facing) port as well, so it has that capability, and it has a couple other features,” Stich said.The space station has two docking ports outfitted to receive Crew Dragon and Starliner spacecraft. Proton rocket lifts off with two Russian Express comsats Once the Crew Dragon and Starliner vehicles are operational, NASA expects both ports will be used simultaneously to accommodate visiting crew and cargo ships.© 1999-2018 Spaceflight Now / Pole Star Publications Ltd "I can't believe how well the whole mission has gone. That will wait until later in the mission, once Behnken and Cassidy complete their spacewalks.“We don’t want to try to pin things down to too hard of a date or too hard of a time,” Bowersox said. After plunging through the Earth’s atmosphere, Crew Dragon deployed its parachutes and splashed down at 8:45 a.m. EST. A boat, called GO Searcher, was waiting to recover the capsule. Industry sources have said Loverro broke NASA procurement rules during a contract competition earlier this year for federal funding to support the development of new human-rated landers to carry astronauts to the lunar surface.The Crew Dragon spacecraft that launched with Hurley and Behnken was certified to fly in space for up to four months.
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