SpaceX Dragon capsule and Falcon 9
WHAT IS CREW DRAGON
- Crew dragon has been developed by SpaceX under a multibillion-contract with the commercial crew of NASA. The similar deal signed with Boeing company, which is working on a capsule called the CST-100 Starliner.
- A lot of money given by NASA to take the parts of the rocket again to Russia. As an example; seats aboard the crew members from the spacecraft and so on. Now the price of Soyuz spacecraft is around $80 million dollars.
- The aim is to take back orbital human spaceflight to the U.S. land. Russian Soyuz rocket is used by American astronauts and they are fully dependent on that. because American space organization NASA retired his space shutter fleet since July 2011.
- Crew Dragon will launch atop SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, a two-stage vehicle that features a reusable first stage. Starliner, which is scheduled to make its uncrewed maiden flight to the ISS sometime in April, will be lofted by United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, which are not reusable
FIRST DEMO FLIGHT OF DRAGON CREW.
- SpaceX maybe an industrial company planning to launch cargo merchandise, and eventually people, to low-Earth orbit. The firm is developing its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster under contracts from NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program and it's Commercial Orbital TransporSilbert station Services (COTS) program.
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- Jon was unaware of that connection, though, when on Friday (March 1) orders suddenly started pouring in for Planetary Pal Earth The vice president of sales for Celestial Buddies (and the father of the product line's creator, Jessie Silbert), he had yet to see the tweet from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Celestial Buddies' anthropomorphized planet Earth toy was flying on board the Crew Dragon for the spacecraft's uncrewed test flight to the orbiting laboratory" the indicator Super high tech zero-g added just before launch!" wrote Ellon Musk on Twitter, sharing a photo of the plush Earth doll just four hours before a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission from NASA's Space Center in Kennedy, Florida at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) on Saturday.
- Borrowing a tradition from Russia's space program, SpaceX flew the Celestial Buddies' Earth on the Crew Dragon so that when the vehicle entered orbit, live video from inside the capsule would show the personified planet toy floating in microgravity.
- "I think for members of the public, the real fun thing will be seeing the little Celestial Buddy, little tiny Earth, humanoid Earth thing, floating around in zero-g. I think the public will be most excited about that," said Musk at a post-launch press conference on Saturday morning.
- And he was right. The public was excited; enough so for hundreds to want a 'little Earth' of their own.
WHAT THINKS HAPPENS AT THE TIME OF LAUNCH
- The launch of Dragon capsule is from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Space Center in Kennedy, Florida. SpaceX is Launched on March 2 for the liftoff and take his first flight.
- The mission is doing to test almost all of the critical equipment of dragon crew members, from its automated approach and docking gear to its life-support and re-entry systems. SpaceX personnel will monitor these systems' performance carefully for the duration of the roughly 2-week-long mission, which will end with a parachute-aided splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
- But after a successful return of Dragon capsule to Earth won't announce Crew Dragon's readiness to go with the crew. SpaceX will also conduct another test in which no crew flight takeoff with the capsule in June, to make sure the escape system is working properly.
- If everything goes perfectly with both of those flights. Then Demo-2 will be cleared for another flight. That mission will be launched as early in July, NASA will choose two astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley for this mission.they are going to the ISS space center for about a weeklong stay.
- The crew missions to the orbiting lab for NASA would be successfully completed.
STARSHIP SPACESHIP
- If SpaceX's vision holds, Crew Dragon won't fly for too long — and neither will cargo Dragon or the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
- SpaceX is building a new do-it-all spaceflight system, which consists of a 100-passenger spaceship called Starship and a giant rocket called Super Heavy. The reusable duo will carry people to and from Mars, the moon and other distant destinations, Musk has said, and do whatever else SpaceX needs it to, from launching satellites to cleaning up space junk.
- Starship and Super Heavy will also do some work closer to Earth's surface, ferrying people on superfast point-to-point trips around the globe.
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