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Selasa, 08 Januari 2013

Big Step for Space Travel


Private enterprise companies, manufacturers of new spacecraft intended orbit and suborbit will make a breakthrough in 2013's. They will test a new flight, launch, wind tunnel testing, and experimental rocket technology, which are all planned in the new year this time.
Of the many spacecraft that have been developed, only one of which has flown into space. Dragon capsule is made ​​by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in hawrthorne, California, USA.

 Cargo UAV has flown three times and twice to bring supplies into the International Space Station (ISS) in 2012. The first, conducted in May in a trial and the second mission was carried out in October 2012.

SpaceX cargo flight next to the ISS is scheduled for early May 2013. But the new version which will carry astronauts have also been done. Capsule that will be filled by this crew will differ from its predecessor which consists of robots.  
Parties SpaceX, is developing a second dragon capsule that will be brought / boarded by 7 people, crew transportation contract in competition, with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to the ISS. NASA's commercial crew program helps industry to develop and compete to win the ISS contract.
The selected companies will also get each fund 10 million dollars and time for 15 months to demonstrate, with data, if the rockets and spaceships they can be considered for space transportation missions. The winner of the contract not only create a spacecraft or rocket launcher, they are also doing something to be desired by NASA, the mission towards space station ISS.

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