USA will again bring people in the room – Volkskrant

16.09.14, 22:21 – Source: Reuters

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UPDATE The United States is going to bring people to the area again. Itself Two commercial companies need crew to the International Space Station and return. The American space agency NASA can concentrate on more difficult missions. So want to bring people to Mars and an asteroid to the Americans.

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The NASA strategy announced today. The service has signed contracts with Boeing and SpaceX. These companies need to develop missiles that can bring people. To the ISS In 2017 the first flight to go.

Test Flight
Boeing gets $ 4.2 billion (3.2 billion euros), SpaceX dollar (2.6 billion 2 billion). That money is earmarked for development. Also, they should definitely perform a test flight with crew. For missions once new contracts to be signed.

The NASA build for the heaviest rocket ever, the Orion. Which should people take on for the first time since the moon missions in the 70s, then orbit around the Earth. “They spend the first crew to an asteroid. The first crew that goes by the moon. The first crew who grow food and eat in space. And the first crew to set foot on Mars and take samples, “said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden at the presentation of the plans.

politics the missiles important. In 2011, the space shuttles retired. Since then, only Russia could people to the ISS and bring it back. “The greatest country on earth should not have to be from other countries. Dependent This will put an end to our dependence on the Russians, “said Bolden.

Trampoline
That America and Europe depends on Russia gives Moscow an important weapon in the sanctions struggle against the West. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as threatened in May that Russia would pull the plug. ISS Previously, he wrote on Twitter: “I suggest that America brings astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline.”

In 1961 went for the first American into space, astronaut Alan Shepard. A few weeks earlier, the Soviet Union has put a man in space. However, the Americans won the largest space race: in 1969 put astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.

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