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SPACE – An update to the International Space Station by Thomas Bisquet. From Sunday, October 31, to Wednesday, November 3, NASA and SpaceX postponed the launch of the rocket that was scheduled to send four new astronauts to Earth. International Space Station (hence replace French and colleagues) in order to avoid a “big storm system,” the US agency said on Saturday.
The crew of the “Crew-3” mission was scheduled to take off on Sunday aboard the capsule. Dragon Crew Called “endurance”, installed on Falcon 9 . rocketfrom the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The launch will finally take place on Wednesday at 1:10 a.m. local time (or 6:10 a.m. in France), and “Crew-3 will arrive at the space station that same evening at approximately 11 p.m. (that is, 4 a.m. in Paris on the day of the event), NASA said.
They then move on to a “short delivery with the astronauts who traveled to the station as part of the agency’s mission called SpaceX Crew-2,” including the French. Thomas Bisketwhich has been on the International Space Station since April.
Two sightseeing tours in the program for new astronauts
If the launch turns out to be impossible again on Wednesday, SpaceX said on its website that there is “possibility to rest” on Thursday, November 4. Crew-3, SpaceX’s third regular manned mission on behalf of NASA, is part of a multi-billion dollar contract signed with Elon Musk’s private company by the US agency after ending its space shuttle program in 2011.
The Crew-3 crew will spend six months in orbit and conduct research aimed at facilitating future distant space explorations or bringing useful knowledge to life on Earth.
The assignment includes an experiment to grow plants in space without soil or other growing substrate. The other is aimed at the manufacture of optical fibers in microgravity, which, according to research already carried out, can give them a higher quality than those produced in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Crew 3 astronauts will also conduct a spacewalk to complete the renovation of the International Space Station’s solar panels and space station two tourist missions: The Japanese brought by the Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the end of the year, and then passengers from the SpaceX Axiom mission, scheduled for February 2022.
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