NASA and SpaceX will send SpaceX Crew-1 mission on Halloween, to the International Space Station.
Crew-1 is technically SpaceX's first official, contracted astronaut mission for NASA, since the one it recently completed was a demonstration.
The successful completion of that test, called Demo-2, paved the way for at least six more planned ISS missions as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, according to Business Insider report.
The mission's crew are astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of Nasa and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
They will be carried to the station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Demo-2 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30 on an historic mission to the International Space Station.Also, the flight marked the first time astronauts have flown into orbit using a spacecraft built by a private company, according to The Sun.
Crew Dragon spacecraft
In addition, the American Nasa astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley returned to Earth last month in the same SpaceX capsule they launched in.
On other hand, Nasa reported that the mission will lay the groundwork for future manned flights to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
On September, the US space agency “NASA” has officially announced the participation of a woman for the first time in a plan to return to the moon by 2024.
Within the framework of the program called “Artemis”, a man and a woman were sent to the surface of the moon, in the first manned landing since the “Apollo 17” flight in 1972.
It will be launched on board a powerful rocket bearing the name “SLS”, and the astronauts will travel in a capsule similar to the “Apollo” vehicle, called “Orion”, according to the British “Sky News” network.
Testing all important systems on a tour around the moon in the fall of 2021. The first stage will include the “Artemis-1” unmanned flight, which will last for about a month.
The “Artemis-2” flight will do the same tour in 2023, but with a crew on board, while the last flight in 2024, “Artemis-3”, will witness the landing of astronauts on the south pole of the moon.
According to “NASA”, its program will also include building permanent infrastructure on the moon later in the decade, in order to support the long flights that will seek to discover the resources available on the moon and the possibility of their use.
NASA Director Jim Bridenstein said that the cost of the program is $ 28 billion. He also made clear that this cost includes all expenses associated with the historic trip.
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