NASA: Russia to send their astronauts into space on a Crew Dragon
Source:Rocket «Union» with the spacecraft «Union MS-09»
After the successful launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with American astronauts and docking with the ISS, space Agency NASA has significantly encouraged the idea to send astronauts into space on its own, as it was before 2011 (and closing the program "space Shuttle"). Since then, the United States bought seats for its astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft — and although the cost of such a flight has reached $ 90 million, it was still cheaper runs "Shuttles" from American shores. Now NASA will be able to abandon the Russian space services, but the Agency expects that Russia, too, will fly into space on SpaceX vehicles.
According to a NASA spokesman Stephanie Shierholz, now the American space Agency is negotiating with Roscosmos to further SpaceX launched into space ships not only with U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts. According to her, Russia could become unprofitable to run "Unions" after NASA refuses to them.
How much NASA is paying Russia for space flight
Despite the fact that NASA is the ability to send astronauts , the fall of 2020, the Agency will still use the Russian "Soyuz" for the flight of his astronaut Kate Rubins on the ISS. However, this flight may be the last in cosmic relations of the USA and Russia. In the future, NASA expects Russia to buy seats on Crew Dragon to send astronauts to the ISS. Supposedly it will be cheaper than running a "Union" only for Russian purposes. During the cooperation, NASA and the Russian space Agency of the United States paid Russia about $ 4 billion. If at first the cost of flying one American astronaut (there and back) was $ 21 million, then gradually increased to 90 million dollars.
One of our Dr. Kate Rubins will be heading to the in the fall.
This will be Dr. Rubins’ second spaceflight. During her first, she helped advance important research and became the first person to sequence DNA in space:
— NASA (@NASA)
the New launch of SpaceX Crew Dragon
In August 2020, NASA plans re-launch the Crew Dragon to ISS — SpaceX wants to reuse , which made its first manned flight into space. On Board will be three American astronauts and one Japanese: the remaining seats shall be used to send 100 kilograms of cargo to the ISS. So in the fall, Kate Rubins will fly together with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikova and Sergey, the Code-Cricket.
Kate Rubins (left)
Maybe in the future really will collaborate with NASA and SpaceX to send into space astronauts. Well, when you can reach the destination by several airlines and not one — here the meaning is the same. If all goes as planned, launching into space will be able to produce Roscosmos, SpaceX and Boeing spaceship Cockpit. However, Boeing has yet everything is not as smooth as the company Ilona Mask: in 2018, the company tested the engines of the "Starliner", and the engines worked as expected, however shortly after their shutdown happened "anomaly" that led to the fuel leak. As it turned out, the problem was in the valves of fuel – they were defective and could not be closed. This has forced Boeing to postpone the originally planned test of a space launch vehicle at a later date.
Russian space program
But it is unlikely that Russia will abandon its own space program. First, she has quite a lot of years, and for the development of "Unions" spent a lot of money, including . In addition, for any country having its own space programme has a strong advantage over the others, it reinforces its credibility in the international arena. Moreover, there is no doubt that NASA will settle for Russian cosmonauts a lower price than it pays now for its astronauts. Therefore, the benefits of such flights for Roskosmos, compared to the launches of "Soyuz", remains in question.
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