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SpaceX and NASA are preparing to complete their most significant joint mission to date. This is Crew Dragon demo-2, which is designed to transport humans on regular space flights from Earth to the Space Station and back.
The Demo-2 is the first manned mission launched by the United States after the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. The The first attempt to launch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 was για τις 27 Μαΐου, που όμως ακυρώθηκε λόγω κακοκαιρίας, που προκλήθηκε από τροπική καταιγίδα, 16 λεπτά και 53 δευτερόλεπτα πριν από την εκτόξευση. Η δεύτερη προσπάθεια εκτόξευσης έγινε στις 30 Μαΐου 2020 and it was successful.
The spacecraft is now preparing to return from the space station and NASA astronauts have already boarded the Crew Dragon. The descent will take many hours and is expected to be completed late Sunday, at 21:48 Greek time, when they will fall into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
Astronauts Behnken and Hurley will return to Earth in a capsule and that is why they disconnected from the International Space Station early Sunday morning, at 02:00 on the morning of August 2, Greek time. The Crew Dragon capsule will do all the required maneuvering in a fully automated way, as it is designed to do.
SpaceX created Crew Dragon to be fully automated on both takeoff and return to Earth, as well as its approach to the ISS space station.
The Demo-2 capsule, along with astronauts Behnken and Hurley, is scheduled to fall into the Gulf of Mexico at 9:48 p.m. Greek time, where they will be approached and picked up by the people of SpaceX. This will be historically the first flight για ένα μη κυβερνητικό, commercial spacecraft.
Μόλις το Crew Dragon εισέλθει στην ατμόσφαιρα, θα αναπτύξει τα αλεξίπτωτά του, τα οποία θα το επιβραδύνουν μέχρι την ταχύτητα 24 χιλιομέτρων ανά ώρα περίπου. Ο λόγος που απαιτεί τόσο μεγάλο ταξίδι από τη στιγμή της αναχώρησης μέχρι την προσγείωση είναι ότι το σκάφος πρέπει να επιβραδυνθεί από την ταχύτητα εκκίνησης που υπολογίζεται σε περίπου 28.160 kilometers / hour, speed it has when leaving the ISS.
NASA and SpaceX will provide live coverage of the operation, in streaming and streaming you can see it here.
