Dragon private spaceship starts on April 30th.

[Гудимов Анатолий Геннадиевич]

NASA announced that the flight of a private unmanned spacecraft Dragon, California-based SpaceX company to the ISS may take place on April 30. The flight will be exclusively demonstrative, it is assumed that the ship will dock with the ISS. In the event of its successful completion, it will be possible to talk about the beginning of a new era in astronautics, reports the Air Force. While the last checks of the ship. In particular, its software is checked. The final go-ahead for the launch will be given next week.

Dragon can put about six tons of cargo into low Earth orbit and return three tons from orbit. Orbital’s Cygnus truck is scheduled to launch on September 1, 2012. It can put into orbit a cargo weighing from 2 to 2.7 tons - depending on the configuration.

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[Патрушев Михаил Владимирович]

Thank! Interesting.

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thanks for the stuff!

 

[Частный детектив Нижний Новгород]

and, imagine that about 50 hectatons in TNT equivalent were hung on this private unmanned rocket, and the private trader would send him where the "card will lie".

 

[Краев Евгений Леонидович]

So there were private space carriers: D

 

[Частный детектив. Панда. Краснодар.]

Thanks, interesting.

 

[ТИМУР]

Thank you for the article.