Testing Private Ship to the Space Station

Two California high school students are expected to be immediately detected. Saturday to begin their experiment to Cape Canaveral, Fla. From the International Space Station scheduled to blast off aboard a rocket is 11.


"We feel rich quickly continued," Max Holden, West Hills, Calif., a ninth grader at Chaminade College Preparatory, said: But there is no guarantee that the fermented grape juice and a seven inch tube will never reach its destination - a.

The launch of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX Hawthorne, Calif., and made a test flight of the spacecraft at the historic event: If all goes well, the first ship of a private company will be managed by the government, the space station to .

On the side of caution Erring, NASA and SpaceX officials stressed that the mission for the purpose of glicisa creditablility buffer. "I think there is a significant chance that this mission does not succeed in" Elon Musk, SpaceX's chief executive, said.

NASA failed to launch any major damage to the items that should be considered - the craft, the Dragon capsule on the top of the Falcon 9 rocket, more than 1,000 pounds of cargo, mostly food and clothing you need. The effect of zero gravity as to whether drugs slow bone loss and whether certain bacteria that eat plastic, plastic tie, and a large amount of space you can eat, including the exploration. The liftoff, set for 4:55 Saturday morning for a space station in orbit with Mother at the moment of launch pad to take up the ends of lines.

If weather or technical problems, keep the soil on the rocket, SpaceX to wait until Wednesday to 3:44 am and will have to re-line orbit. After reaching orbit, a series of maneuvers to test the Dragon capsule. The Space Station under 1.5 miles the third day of his flight navigation and communications systems are scheduled to demonstrate.

If the test passes, NASA, the - go ahead on Tuesday, when Donald R. Pettit, NASA astronaut, space station robotic arm to use Mother dragon will grab and pull the final approach to the docking port.

If successful, the dragon was the first commercial spacecraft to visit the space station, and a 396 million dollar contract with NASA, SpaceX will have to pay for the cargo ship will collect the rest of the development.

SpaceX after a dozen cargo flights to the station will enter a contract for $ 1.6 billion. If the flight fails, SpaceX demonstration flights to be repeated until it succeeds. SpaceX Falcon 9, particularly since the beginning of a new rocket failures that prevent the gathering. The first flight, in June 2010, was nearly flawless.

Second Flight - NASA under contract in the first - in December 2010, the Dragon capsule parachuted back to Earth orbit places that have run successfully. These successes, however, taken longer than expected. SpaceX originally forecast in 2009 will be his first visit to the space station. This delay was not a major surprise, Mr. Musk said that, given these complexities.

"Actually, we have further hope that," she said, "but I have great confidence and are not expected." Students at Chaminade Preparatory to view winemaking experiments, particularly the launch would be provocative. If the capsule to the space station, the astronauts there to make grape juice and the yeast mixture and let it ferment for five days.

Max Holden and his lab partner, Paige D ', Andrea, a 10 grader, the same experiment, and the space of one month after the wine is returned to Earth, they will compare the two. "When we get it back, we're one of the priests continue to receive the auspices of the" Nancy McIntyre, Chaminade, the Catholic school, said the project director.
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