Boeing and SpaceX will be engaged in a manned flight to the ISS

Boeing and SpaceX will be engaged in a manned flight to the ISS

Boeing and SpaceX will receive a contract for manned missions the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the first flight is scheduled for 2017, said Tuesday the head of department Charles Bolden. After the Space Shuttle program in 2011, the United States is used for flights the orbit of Russian missiles "Union" and pay the Russian side for each run of 71 million dollars. "We carry out the promise of President Obama's space launches back to the United States and end our dependence on Russian," - said Bolden. 

According to him, the initial cost of the project to develop a manned spacecraft, which will fly to the International Space Station, will be about 6, 8 billion dollars. Both companies will use the system on the basis of landers-capsules. Boeing presented its project to the competition spaceship CST-100 and SpaceX - ship design Dragon. Bolden said the United States expects to launch the first independent manned mission to the end of 2017 c Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

Head of commercial manned NASA Liders Kathy explained that the contract provides for up to six manned missions to the International Space Station, in each mission will involve four astronauts. Due to the new ship the scientific potential of the ISS should increase by about half, calculated at NASA. "In addition, it can serve as a rescue capsule space station for up to 210 days," - said Liders. After the United States imposed sanctions against Russia because of the annexation of the Crimea and the events surrounding the Ukraine, they made ​​an exception for those projects in which interested themselves, in particular for the ISS.