Po katastrofie Falcona 9 SpaceX nie chce podawać terminów lotów testowych Dragona załogowego. Podkreśla się , że bezpieczeństwo załóg jest priorytetem.
Prior to the Sept. 1 pad accident that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload, SpaceX had planned to perform a demonstration mission of its Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station without a crew as soon as May 2017, with a crewed demo mission to follow later in the year. But at the conference, Benji Reed, director of crew mission management at SpaceX, declined to give estimated dates for those missions.
Chris Ferguson jest optymistą:
Chris Ferguson, deputy program manager for commercial crew at Boeing, restated a schedule for development of the CST-100 Starliner that the company has been reporting for several months. That plan includes an uncrewed flight test in late 2017 and a crewed flight test in February 2018. That schedule, he said, would allow the CST-100 to be certified in time for an operational mission in June 2018.
Raport NASA’s Office of Inspector General z 1 września wyraża zdanie, że w 2018 astronauci NASA mogą nie polecieć komercyjnymi statkami załogowymi.
That schedule is more optimistic than an assessment in a Sept. 1 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. That report found issues delaying development of commercial crew vehicles at both companies, and concluded that it was unlikely either would be certified to carry NASA astronauts before late 2018.
http://spacenews.com/commercial-crew-companies-emphasize-safety-over-schedule/
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