NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken went on Board of the ship Crew Dragon company SpaceX, which is scheduled on Wednesday to launch from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida) to the International space station (ISS). Stream preparation for the start is on the website of the American space Agency.
Astronauts and experts from NASA and SpaceX arrived to the launch pad at the car company Tesla. It, like SpaceX, headed by entrepreneur Elon Musk. As noted by the managers that run on the license plate of the car says: "course – on the ISS".
Before sending astronauts said goodbye to loved ones. We talked Musk and the head of NASA Jim Breidenstein. The spaceport is also Vice-President of the United States Michael Pence, is expected to arrive and the us leader Donald trump.
In the near future the specialists will once again check all vehicle systems and spacesuits of astronauts. After that, the hatches Crew Dragon will be closed.
The vehicle start with Hurley and Behnken on Board on Wednesday is scheduled for 16:33 time East coast USA (23:33 GMT) and docked with the ISS on may 28. Crew Dragon is a modification of the cargo ship Dragon, which already delivers cargo to the ISS. In automatic mode, the Crew Dragon was sent to the station with the help of rocket Falcon 9 on 2 March and docked the next day.
NASA has stopped manned flights in 2011, after the completion of the program, use the return of the ships of the Space Shuttle. Since then, astronauts delivered to the ISS by the Russian "Unions". Initially it was assumed that American commercial ships will launch manned missions in 2017.
