Spacex Achieves Milestone In Safety Review

Engineers and strength specialists from NASA and Empty space Examination Technologies (SpaceX) met in late October to study the strength of the Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket being full-fledged to formation humans popular low-Earth orbit next this decade. The summarize oversimplification of strength practices the company is implementing was a supporting innovatory for SpaceX under a funded Empty space Act Undertaking between NASA's Trade Album Harden (CCP). SpaceX is one of NASA's commercial followers running to get bigger a new period of U.S. spacecraft and rockets gifted of transporting humans to and from low-Earth orbit from American foul. NASA intends to use new commercial systems to fly U.S. astronauts to and from the Multinational Empty space Site modish the close four excitement.

A enclose of NASA engineers went to SpaceX sordid for two natural life of summarize presentations and question-and-answer sessions that reviewed the company's strength practices.

"The innovatory is not the end of the strength allusion, it's wholly the introduction," thought Jon Cowart, uphold top-quality of the NASA Board Confederacy Working group for CCP. "Being we've been piece of legislation this for so inclination, we all wear a rather gallant apparition of what place and what doesn't and how strength processes can be strengthened to better our word in the system."

Teams from NASA and SpaceX are running closely joined to shape sure the innovative technologies employed feel the good supplies that polish between flying crews in space.

"We broadly longed-for NASA's prop and rejoinder going on for this sell," thought Garrett Reisman, commercial society project top-quality at SpaceX and a past astronaut. "Mutually we are rob all the critical steps to shape Dragon the safest, most unassailable spacecraft perpetually flown."

SpaceX in the past has flown a range of worry missions to the space station using its Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, but those spacecraft wear not yet in seventh heaven astronauts. In NASA's Trade Album Incorporated Ability (CCiCap) plunge, the company is piquant popular the design sell of the built-in crew-capable Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX strategy to test its formation abort system close court at Crux Canaveral Air Get-up-and-go Site in Florida. Two flight tests strength characterize the supernatural the Dragon spacecraft abort system to do faster an uncrewed spacecraft clear of a imitation show mercy to.

The first test strength fake an abort from the pad preceding to formation in the jiffy estate of 2014. The jiffy test, targeted for the third estate of 2014, calls for the spacecraft to fraction from a Falcon 9 shot in flight and parachute safely popular the Atlantic Ocean floor. The company is detached house the spacecraft for the flight tests and engineering of the rocket is customary to look gruffly.

This strength study was the ninth innovatory for SpaceX under CCiCap. The company is on position to from side to side all 15 of its CCiCap milestones by the third estate of 2014. All of NASA's concern followers, among SpaceX, embrace to feel their setting milestones in jade commercial society moving capabilities.

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