SpaceX Falcon Rocket Flies
NASA and SpaceX have 7th
Announced in October 2012 as the starting date for the first SpaceX supply
mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch of the Falcon 9
rocket and Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for 08.34 pm EDT from Cape Canaveral,
Florida. October 8th is the backup date.
The launch is the first of 12
to the ISS, SpaceX under commercial supply NASA's Services (CRS) contract and
follows a successful demonstration mission in May when SpaceX the first private
company ever to the ISS to fasten securely and to earth.
The SpaceX CRS-1 mission is the
recovery of the U.S. ability to deliver cargo to the ISS and back - a feat not
achieved since the retirement of the Space Shuttle. SpaceX is also contracted
for Dragon crew of the station sending develop. SpaceX the first manned flight
is expected to take place in 2015.
Dragon is on this mission with
supplies, materials to 166 experiments in Plant Cell Biology that support
biotechnology and materials technology are filled. An experiment to determine
the effects of gravity on the opportunistic yeast Candida albicans, which all
people studying. Another will evaluate how the gravity of the growth of the
cell walls in a plant called Arabidopsis influences.
Expedition 33 Commander Sunita
Williams of NASA and Aki Hoshide the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to a
robot arm to make the dragon after the rendezvous with the station on October
10 expects deal. It is aimed at the Earth Dragon port of Harmony module of the
station for a few weeks to join, while the crew and cargo loading and unloading
experiment samples for return to Earth.
Dragon is expected to return in
late October for a parachute-assisted landing in the Pacific Ocean off the
coast of Southern California. Dragon fly back system scientific equipment and
space station Hardware.o the Earth-facing port of Harmony module of the station
for a few weeks while crews cargo and load handling experiment samples for
return to Earth.
Dragon is scheduled to return
in late October for a parachute-assisted landing in the Pacific Ocean off the
coast of Southern California. Dragon flies back to scientific equipment and
space station hardware.
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