In less than two weeks for the company to launch the SpaceX Dragon private spacecraft and docking with the ISS. A milestone marking the start of a new space age to which NASA has given the nod.



Dragon is a capsule developed by the company SpaceX. Its mission is to resupply cargo to the station with the "particularity" that is a commercial operator which will take place. Therefore, and successfully accomplish the mission, Dragon is the first private spacecraft to dock with the ISS.

The flight of the capsule will be a demonstration marking the future of a new era in space travel. The same NASA (which funds part of the project) is very interested in this type of space transportation actually confirmed in a private sector in both the cargo and crew on the next step

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If Dragon is developed by a private company and manages the cargo safely, the next level is intended to assess the voyage with astronauts and crew.

With this "shipment" would end the trial initiated by SpaceX in December 2010, when it launched a capsule that remained near the ISS and then came down to Earth safely.


The flight of the capsule will be the April 30 (16:22 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, and will be marked first by a low-flying 2 km below the ISS. That will be the time to approve or validate your flight system for the subsequent coupling. There will even be a flight simulation possible abortion of the mission in anticipation of avoiding a serious accident collision.

Once this test, the capsule will dock making history before returning to Earth and dropped into the ocean.

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