Professor Steven Squyres, technicians Aquarius Reef Base Justin Brown, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger while undergoing NEEMO 16. (Doc. NASA)
Over the past few years the United States astronaut must ride Russian plane to get into space, but the situation will change in the future.
US space agency, NASA has established cooperation with Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) since September 2014 and to create a spacecraft carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
As a first step, NASA announced the four astronauts first asked to examine the feasibility of the aircraft.
Fourth NASA astronauts are Robert Behnken, Sunita Williams, Eric Boe, and Douglas Hurley. They will train for taking off with SpaceX and Boeing aircraft. Three of them will be chosen to drive the first flight trials in 2017.
Since NASA stopped producing the space shuttle in 2011, the space agency has always Soyuz spacecraft aboard the Russian space agency, Roscosmos for astronauts traveling to the ISS. Aircraft manufacturing is expected to make them to be more independent.
Citing Popular Science's website, but the NASA announcement seem to ignore events that befall Nahas SpaceX Dragon cargo plane SPX-7 with the Falcon 9 rocket exploded while new sliding on June 29 last.
NASA even claimed, the damage suffered by the SpaceX will not hamper the series plans in 2017 to launch astronauts to the ISS crew. The US space agency was assessing the failure Dragon SPX-7 and Falcon 9 yesterday was to be a lesson for SpaceX engineers to create a safer spacecraft.
NASA spokesman Kyle Herring said, after both commercial enterprises unmanned completed trials, each of which will fly two astronauts for flight tests to the ISS and dock into the station, then break away from the dock, out of the orbit of the ISS, and returned to land The Earth safely. Everything is for the sake of proving that the aircraft can operate properly.
Nevertheless, NASA reportedly decided to use aircraft from Boeing to carry out the first human flight.
In September, NASA signed a contract worth US $ 4.2 billion for Boeing and SpaceX US $ 2.6 billion.
After dikalkukasi, in collaboration with Boeing and SpaceX NASA can save expenses of more than US $ 12 million or equivalent to Rp 150 billion.
Some time ago, Kathy Lueders as manager of NASA's commercial crew program expects when the crew began to fly with Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Dragon capsule, they just have to pay about US $ 58 million per seat.
During bum-owned aircraft Roscosmos, the cost somewhat wasteful. The services cost more than US $ 70 million per person, or around Rp 873 billion.
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