Dragon Crew v.2.0

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 54 мин. назад

Koenigsmann: "going to be a close call" if Dragon performs first commercial crew test flight this year. Hardware may be ready in time, but paperwork could be an obstacle.
#IAC2018

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https://spacenews.com/first-spacex-commercial-crew-flight-test-could-slip-to-2019/

First SpaceX commercial crew test flight could slip to 2019
by Jeff Foust — October 3, 2018


A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaching the ISS. An uncrewed test flight of the vehicle might not launch until early 2019, a SpaceX official said Oct. 3. Credit: NASA

BREMEN, Germany — A SpaceX executive said Oct. 3 that the company's first commercial crew test flight could be delayed until early 2019 because of paperwork issues.

In a speech at the 69th International Astronautical Congress here, Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, said launching an uncrewed test flight before the end of the year will be a "close call" even though the hardware itself should be ready.

"We're working hard to get this done this year," he said. "The hardware might be ready, but we might still have to do some paperwork on the certification side of it. It's going to be a close call whether we fly this year or not."

When NASA announced revised commercial crew test flight schedules in early August, SpaceX planned to launch an uncrewed flight of its Crew Dragon vehicle in November, followed by a crewed test flight in April 2019. Those dates represented the latest in a series of delays experienced by both SpaceX and Boeing, the other company with a NASA commercial crew contract, in recent years.

However, during a Sept. 17 presentation about SpaceX's plans to fly its much larger Big Falcon Rocket on a trip around the moon, company founder and chief executive Elon Musk suggested that the schedule has already slipped again.

"We're hoping to do a test flight of Dragon 2 in December, and then a crewed flight next year, hopefully in the second quarter of next year," he said. Company officials declined to comment at the time on that schedule, other than to say that SpaceX is "working closely with NASA to find the right dates."

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The revised Boeing schedule announced in early August called for an uncrewed flight of its CST-100 Starliner late this year or early next year followed by a crewed test flight in the middle of 2019. "That's exactly where we are," said Chris Ferguson, crew and mission operations director for the Starliner program at Boeing, during an Oct. 2 briefing here.

He declined, though, to say when Boeing would provide more specific dates for those missions, noting he has been in flight training. NASA announced Aug. 3 that Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut, would be on the crewed Starliner test flight, along with NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann.

That training, he said later, has included both that related to flying the Starliner spacecraft as well as training related to the International Space Station. The latter is needed should NASA decide to extend the crewed flight test from its original duration of about two weeks to as long as six months, as a contingency in the event further commercial crew delays jeopardize access to the ISS, as NASA's use of Soyuz seats will end in early 2020.

"The lion's share of what we're doing right now is preparing some of the non-perishable training, putting some of that under our belts," he said. That includes medical and "light ISS systems work" as well as, for Boe and Mann, spacewalk training.

Ferguson said he expects NASA to make a decision on extending the Starliner crewed test flight by next spring. "We're certainly on track to fly mid-next year if called upon," he said. "I think NASA would like to make a short-/long-term decision sometime around March of next year on how long we will actually end up staying."

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/launch-dates-to-be-updated-more-regularly-as-commercial-crew-flights-draw-nearer

Oct. 4, 2018

Launch Dates to be Updated More Regularly as Commercial Crew Flights Draw Nearer



As NASA's Commercial Crew partners Boeing and SpaceX crew transportation systems are within months of being ready for the first test flights of their spacecraft that will carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil, the scheduling of launch dates enters a new phase. 

This near-term scheduling balances the commercial partners' readiness with NASA and the International Space Station's schedule and the availability of the Eastern Range to establish a target launch date. NASA plans to provide up-to-date launch planning dates on the Commercial Crew blog, which will be updated approximately monthly, with near-term launches also appearing on NASA's launches and landing schedule.

"As we get closer to launching human spacecraft from the U.S., we can be more precise in our schedules," said Phil McAlister, director of Commercial Spaceflight Development at NASA Headquarters. "This allows our technical teams to work efficiently toward the most up-to-date schedules, while allowing us to provide regular updates publicly on the progress of our commercial crew partners."

SpaceX and the Commercial Crew Program are working together to have the hardware and associated activities ready for its first test flight – Demo-1 – in December 2018, but the launch will occur in January to accommodate docking opportunities at the orbiting laboratory. Boeing's targeted readiness for its Orbital Flight Test is March 2019. Both test flights will be uncrewed missions.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are training to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission, with a planning date of June 2019. NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson are slated for Boeing's Crew Flight Test targeted for August 2019.

As with all human spaceflight development, learning from each test and adjusting as necessary to reduce risk to the crew may override targeted launch dates.

"This new process for reporting our schedule is better; nevertheless, launch dates will still have some uncertainty, and we anticipate they may change as we get closer to launch," McAlister said. "These are new spacecraft, and the engineering teams have a lot of work to do before the systems will be ready to fly."

Following the test flights, NASA will review the performance data and resolve issues as necessary to certify the systems for operational missions. The readiness date for the first long-duration Expedition crew mission is targeted for August 2019 and a second mission is targeted in December 2019, with the specific spacecraft yet to be determined.

Boeing and SpaceX have made significant strides in the development and operation of a new generation of spacecraft and launch systems in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. This public-private partnership marks the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight to design, develop, and test their systems to ensure safe, reliable and cost-effective commercial transportation for astronauts to low-Earth orbit. The success of these human spaceflight systems will be an unprecedented achievement for the commercial space industry and will enable NASA to focus on deep space exploration with NASA's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System, as we return humans to the Moon and on to Mars.

Last Updated: Oct. 4, 2018
Editor: Anna Heiney

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Commercial Crew: Dawn of a New Space Age

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 10 окт. 2018 г.

One day, space travel won't be just for government astronauts. NASA is nurturing private industry to usher in a new era of commercial space, where exponential growth is poised to take flight.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 20 мин. назад

SpaceX's Reed: flying Dragon cargo missions allows us to build more confidence into systems needed for later crewed missions.
#ISPCS2018


18 мин. назад

Reed: the Falcon 9 first and second stages for the Demo-1 (uncrewed) test flight are in final testing at McGregor, shipping soon to Cape.
#ISPCS2018


16 мин. назад

Reed: we're driving very hard to be ready for Demo-1 launch by the end of the year. [currently scheduled for January 2019]
#ISPCS2018

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 1 ч. назад

Q: what about Dragon parachute anomalies discussed at ASAP meeting today?
Reed: we're collecting a lot of data pn parachutes through testing and Dragon cargo flights, making sure ultimate chutes are safe. [Doesn't discuss specifics of any anomalies]
#ISPCS2018

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/5670092

12 ОКТ, 19:13
СМИ: график пусков новых американских кораблей к МКС может быть скорректирован

По информации портала Space News, члены консультативной группы NASA выразили сомнения в том, что SpaceX и Boeing смогут выдержать нынешний график создания коммерческих транспортных систем

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 12 октября. /ТАСС/. График полетов новых американских космических кораблей к Международной космической станции (МКС) может быть скорректирован с учетом усиления требований к безопасности после аварии российской ракеты-носителя "Союз-ФГ". Об этом сообщил в пятницу интернет-портал Space News со ссылкой на участников заседания Консультативной группы NASA по вопросам безопасности полетов.

Заседание состоялось в четверг в Центре космических полетов имени Джонсона в Хьюстоне через несколько часов после того, как стало известно об аварийном спуске пилотируемого корабля "Союз МС-10" с космонавтом Роскосмоса Алексеем Овчининым и астронавтом NASA Ником Хейгом.

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Комментируя планы компаний SpaceX и Boeing провести в начале будущего года первые полеты новых кораблей, председатель консультативной группы NASA Патрисия Сандерс отметила, что обозначенные ими сроки "непилотируемых и пилотируемых испытательных полетов чреваты значительным риском и, похоже, недостижимы". "Члены группы считают, что чрезвычайно напряженный график, продиктованный реальными или надуманными опасениями касаемо возможного перерыва в полетах астронавтов к МКС, которые усилились в связи с произошедшими [в четверг] утром событиями, создает опасность того, что разумные инженерные решения могут быть отвергнуты, а критически важные компоненты программ создания кораблей могут быть отложены или отменены, в результате чего могут быть приняты решения на основании недостаточно проверенной информации", - отметила она.

Как отметил портал Space News, Патрисия Сандерс и другие члены консультативной группы NASA выразили сомнения в том, что SpaceX и Boeing смогут выдержать нынешний график создания коммерческих транспортных систем, не говоря уже о том, чтобы ускорить процесс в целях избежания проблем с доставкой астронавтов на МКС, связанных с аварией ракеты-носителя "Союз-ФГ".

Компания SpaceX планирует провести демонстрационный полет своего корабля в январе 2019 года, а в марте должен состояться полет корабля CST-100 Starliner компании Boeing. Как отметило в этой связи информационное агентство Bloomberg, NASA хочет, чтобы на борту МКС находился экипаж для того, чтобы следить за сближением новых американских кораблей со станцией.

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[Astro Cat]

Бгг. Вместо того чтоб перестать тянуть резину и практически убедится в работоспособности систем, запуская пилотируемые корабли без экипажа, чиновничество надувает щеки и ставит новые препоны.

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Astro Cat пишет:
Бгг. Вместо того чтоб перестать тянуть резину и практически убедится в работоспособности систем, запуская пилотируемые корабли без экипажа, чиновничество надувает щеки и ставит новые препоны.

Дрыгун, СST-100, Орион - слишком много, "останется только один" (с, Горец)

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Astro Cat пишет:
... чиновничество надувает щеки и ставит новые препоны.

Кто платит, тот и заказывает музыку.

Маск же хотел в этом году отправить людей вокруг Луны. Если ему очень надо -- пусть хоть завтра запрягает Falcon Havy и сам летит к Луне.

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Вот запустил бы Маск ремонтную бригаду к "Хабблу", были бы ему респект и ув'ажуха.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/10/13/safety-panel-says-much-work-left-to-do-before-commercial-crew-ships-fly/

Safety panel says much work left to do before commercial crew ships fly
October 13, 2018 | Stephen Clark


A test model of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft descends under four main parachutes over Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California during a drop test earlier this year. The Crew Dragon will normally return to splash down at sea, but this test gathered data on the parachutes' performance during an abort that would force a return over land. Credit: NASA/SpaceX

NASA safety advisors on Thursday lauded hardware milestones on Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew capsules, but said multiple technical issues, including problems with parachutes, must be resolved before the human-rated ships are ready to carry astronauts, adding that both companies continue to pursue schedules that appear to be unachievable.

Members of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said engineers at both companies, which work under contract to NASA, are examining their parachute designs after encountering failures during testing.

The chair of the safety panel also said Thursday that Boeing and SpaceX's most recent schedules for orbital test flights of their commercial space taxis remain overly-ambitious. She added that, so far, safety remains a priority in NASA's commercial crew program, but cautioned that schedule pressures could be exasperated by Thursday's emergency landing of two-man crew heading to the station on a Soyuz rocket, which threw the schedule for future Soyuz crew launches into question.

"We have not seen the (commercial crew) program make decisions detrimental to safety, but currently projected schedules for uncrewed and crewed test flights for both providers have considerable risk and do not appear achievable," said Patricia Sanders, the safety board's chair and former executive director of the Missile Defense Agency.

SpaceX plans to launch its first Crew Dragon spacecraft on an unpiloted mission to the International Space Station as soon as January. Boeing plans a similar orbital test flight, without astronauts, no earlier than March.

Assuming the flights go well, those fully autonomous demo missions will be followed by crew flight tests — in June for SpaceX's Crew Dragon and in August for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner — according to a schedule update published by NASA last week.

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The failure of a Soyuz rocket Thursday during the launch of a two-man crew bound for the space station raised questions about whether crews can remain on the space station if Russia's investigation into the accident keeps future astronaut launches grounded.

Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA flight engineer Nick Hague safely landed downrange in Kazakhstan inside their Soyuz MS-10 descent module, which carried them away from the rocket failure around two minutes after liftoff.

Russian investigations into rocket failures typically go faster than inquiries into launch accidents in the United States, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Friday he saw no reason to think the next Soyuz crew launch in Decmeber — with Russian, U.S. and Canadian crew members — will be postponed in the wake of Thursday's emergency landing.


A prototype of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule completed a pad abort test at Cape Canaveral in May 2015. Credit: SpaceX

While Russian engineers may close out their investigation into Thursday's launch failure in time to keep upcoming crew launches on track, NASA's agreement with the Russian space agency to pay for U.S. astronaut seats on Soyuz launches expires next year, with the final landing under the NASA-Roscosmos contract scheduled in January 2020.

If SpaceX or Boeing is not ready to launch astronauts by then, there could a gap in U.S. presence on the station. NASA and Roscosmos have already agreed to extend the length of upcoming space station expeditions to six months or longer, pushing out the final landing under the Soyuz seat contract from 2019 to January 2020.

NASA and Boeing have agreed that the first crew test flight of the CST-100 Starliner, originally conceived to last a few weeks, could be converted into a long-duration stay at the space station, ensuring a U.S. astronaut presence on the orbiting outpost.

A similar deal could be executed between NASA and SpaceX.

Once the commercial crew contractors are flying operationally, NASA and Roscosmos have an "in-kind" agreement to fly a Russian cosmonaut on each U.S. crew launch and a U.S. or partner astronaut on each Soyuz mission to ensure the space station always has at least one crew member capable of managing the U.S. and Russian segments of the research complex.

In remarks at the opening of Thursday's ASAP meeting, Sanders expressed concerns that NASA's efforts to ensure continuous U.S. presence on the space station should not come at the cost of safety.

"The panel believes that an over-constrained schedule driven by any real or perceived potential gap in astronaut transport to the ISS, possibly exasperated by this morning's events, poses a danger that sound engineering design solutions could be superseded, critical program content could be delayed or deleted, and decisions of 'good enough' (could) be made based on insufficient data," Sanders said in Thursday's previously-scheduled meeting, which convened hours after the Soyuz launch failure.

Panel members said NASA should make sure SpaceX and Boeing's unpiloted test flights include demonstrations of all the critical spacecraft systems necessary for human spaceflight, ensuring each component has been tested before astronauts fly on the commercial spaceships.

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NASA has assigned astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley (left and center-left) for the Crew Dragon's first piloted test flight in orbit, named Demo-2. Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover (center-right and right) will fly on the Crew Dragon's first operational crew rotation mission to the space station. Credit: NASA

SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft, assigned to an orbital test flight designated Demo-1 without astronauts on-board, arrived at Cape Canaveral in July to begin final preparations for launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Don McErlean, an ASAP member, said SpaceX's flight hardware continues to move closer to launch.

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"This certainly is a positive trend and appears to be proceeding reasonably well," he said Thursday. "However, while the current hardware continues to move along, even to the extent that some of that may be at the Cape, there are serious difficulties and challenges that remain in the schedule in terms of technical issues."

One major area of concern identified by McErlean involves the Crew Dragon's parachutes, which are similar to the chutes used on SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule. He pointed to unspecified anomalies observed on parachutes during testing and on Dragon returns on cargo missions from the space station.

"Recent parachute testing, both using the commercial crew program qualification testing regimen and some anomalies that have been witnessed in the resupply contract, which is also handled by SpaceX, showed that there have been difficulties and problems with the parachute design," McErlean said. "Clearly, one cannot risk crew without there being complete confidence in the parachute design."

He said NASA's commercial crew program has a requirement for both contractors to verify the performance of all their critical systems on an unpiloted test flight before a crew demo mission, and parachutes "clearly" constitute a critical system.

If the parachute system has to be redesigned, McErlean said, the Crew Dragon's unpiloted Demo-1 test flight should be postponed to make sure the new parachute design is demonstrated on a real space mission before putting astronauts on-board.

He said it is not clear whether a redesign will be required in the Crew Dragon parachute system, which includes a series of pilot and drogue chutes, and four main parachutes to slow the capsule for splashdown at sea.

"Potential redesigns may be required, which then drive the requirement for additional qualification and certification testing," McErlean said. "We remain adamant that the program requirement for certification is ... that an uncrewed flight test of the crew configuration must take place first. We continue to support that. It is our (understanding) that the (commercial crew) program continues to support that."

"Clearly, redesign drives recursion testing, additional qualification testing, and flight testing, which can clearly lead to schedule impacts," McErlean said. "So although we have hardware progressing, we have some serious design issues illustrated by these recent anomalies, which will require investigation prior to resolution, and at the moment, we do not have on hand what the solution to those problems are."


SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft slated to fly with astronauts on the Demo-2 mission is being assembled and tested at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. This image of the capsule was taken Aug. 13. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

McErlean also updated the safety advisory board on engineers' continuing study of the Falcon 9 rocket's helium pressurant tanks, one of which was blamed for an on-pad rocket explosion in 2016.

SpaceX is expected to debut a redesigned second stage helium tank, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel, on the Crew Dragon Demo-1 launch, then fly the tank on seven Falcon 9 missions to meet NASA's safety requirements before using it on a launch with astronauts on-board.

Assuming SpaceX's improved helium tanks work as advertised, NASA officials say they are comfortable with the company's "load-and-go" fueling method for crew missions, in which the astronauts will strap into the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the support team will be evacuated from the launch pad before filling of the Falcon 9 with propellants.

The load-and-go technique runs counter to NASA practices on the space shuttle and earlier human-rated launchers, but SpaceX argues it is safer, and an abort system will be armed to carry the astronauts to safety in the event of an explosive accident like the one that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload during a countdown in 2016.

SpaceX believe the 2016 rocket explosion most likely occurred when liquid oxygen propellant froze in a buckle or void between the aluminum liner and carbon overwrap of one of the COPVs. While investigators were unable to pinpoint a "root cause," engineers concluded the solid oxygen likely ignited from friction or breaking fibers on the outside of the helium tank, causing the Falcon 9's upper stage to burst in a ball of flame.

The helium bottles store cold helium to be injected into the propellant tanks to maintain their pressures in flight.

SpaceX modified its fueling and helium loading procedures after the September 2016 accident to prevent solid oxygen from forming, and the new COPV design incorporates changes the company says will eliminate the buckles altogether.

In an update presented to the NASA Advisory Council's human exploration and operations committee in August, NASA commercial crew program manager Kathy Lueders said qualification of the upgraded COPV — dubbed COPV 2.0 — was complete, and a "safe-life demonstration" was ongoing.

"At the moment, we still do not have final resolution of the root cause of the COPV failures, which are generally considered to have caused at least one on-pad accident and also affect the total safety of the load-and-go concept that is intended to be used (on crew launches)," McErlean said Thursday. "These causes of various sorts remain under investigation. There are scientific investigations still ongoing looking for root cause analysis. They are working on improved configurations, but there remain open technical issues that still need to be completed and understood."

In a speech Oct. 3 at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany, SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability Hans Koenigsmann said company is "getting close" to the first Crew Dragon test flight, but chalked up the reason for a delay to next year to "paperwork."

"We are working hard to get this done this year, but at this time, the hardware might be ready, (but) we might still have to do some work on paper, on paperwork, and the certification side of it," Koenigsmann said. "It's going to be a close call whether we fly this year or not."

McErlean, an aerospace industry consultant whose experience includes a post as the Defense Department's chief engineer for naval aviation, said the the importance of certification "paperwork" should not be trivialized.

"We continue to hear these things about certification paperwork, and it's one of my own personal hot buttons," McErlean said Thursday. "The work is not paperwork in the sense of blindly filling out forms or writing letters or sending each other memos."

Under the terms of the SpaceX and Boeing commercial crew contracts with NASA — valued at $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively — the companies are required to submit data on test results, design details and other parameters to the space agency. NASA engineers are responsible for reviewing the information and certifying that each design can accomplish the mission of carrying astronauts to and from the space station, and do it within NASA's safety requirements.

"The NASA engineers then have some period of time in which to review that data — it could be test data, it could be analysis, it could be any number of things, and it depends on the parameter in question — review that data and validate that, indeed, the contractor has showed that that certification condition, whatever it may be, has been met, and then, and only then, does that engineer sign off that on this issue the design is adequate.

"That does have to be complete before crew flights on these systems, and it is essentially extremely important and should not be thought of as some sort of bureaucratic time delay," McErlean said. "I wanted to bring that up, and it's as true for the other partner as well."

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Echoing McErlean's comments, Saindon, a former U.S. Navy pilot and former director of aviation safety programs at the U.S. Naval Safety Center, said the "validation and certification process is not paperwork, and there's a lot to do."

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Space to Ground: A Successful Failure: 10/19/2018

NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 19 окт. 2018 г.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 23 мин. назад

Today, SpaceX filed for their launch and recovery license with the FCC to support the DM-1 mission. The start date is December 10th, 2018 – a good sign that SpaceX is almost ready. Of course, NASA schedule stills says no earlier than January, 2019.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2018/10/25/commercial-crew-teams-practice-triage-and-medical-evacuation/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2018/10/25/commercial-crew-teams-practice-triage-and-medical-evacuation/

Commercial Crew Teams Practice Triage and Medical Evacuation

Anna Heiney
Posted Oct 25, 2018 at 10:25 am



NASA and the Department of Defense Human Space Flight Support (HSFS) Office have a long history in preparing for human spaceflight missions. As NASA's Commercial Crew Programprepares to begin launching astronauts once again from American soil, it is vital teams prepare for launch day operations, including possible but unlikely emergency scenarios, and simulations are key to getting teams as ready as possible.



Today, teams from NASA, HSFS and SpaceX are conducting a joint medical triage and medical evacuation (medevac) training exercise at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the second of two emergency medical services simulations to be performed before commercial crew flight tests, which are scheduled for 2019. The first exercise was conducted at Space Launch Complex 41 and integrated teams from NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance.

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"In the business of human spaceflight, we go to great lengths to design away or to control all the known hazards," said Steve Payne, NASA Simulation Test Director and CCP Launch Integrator. "However, when the unexpected happens, we must be ready to respond. We develop and practice our procedures to handle the worst possible scenarios on launch day, but we hope we never have to use them. NASA is working closely with both our commercial partners and the Department of Defense to do everything possible to keep our flight crews and ground teams safe."

For today's exercise, teams are practicing a worst-case scenario, pad emergency and subsequent hypergolic fuel leak. Starting at the base of the egress system at Launch Complex 39A, volunteer ground crews are evacuating the pad perimeter using three Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, vehicles. Three helicopters, emergency services, and the triage team are meeting the evacuated crews at triage site 8, between Launch Pads 39A and B.

As part of this exercise, evacuated personnel are undergoing a toxic vapor check. Kennedy Fire/Rescue teams are treating the crews as if contamination were detected and are performing decontamination measures. Following the medical evaluations, the simulated patients are being stabilized and prepared for transport. Selected patients are being evacuated to several area hospitals in order to validate all emergency procedures.

This simulation is a recent example of how safety is being built into systems, processes and procedures. These simulations are designed to exercise various components of emergency procedures, as well as triage and medevac response during the unlikely event of an emergency during launch operations. It is standard practice to conduct these exercises, and was regularly done during the Space Shuttle Program.

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[Max Andriyahov]

Новенькая B1054 едет из Техаса обратно в Калифорнию. Пишут, что огневые испытания ступени были "необычно долгими" в этот раз. снимок сделан в Аризоне. По слухам, именно эта ступень повезет Дракон2 в первый полет

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Видео от NASA Commercial Crew в Твиттере: SpaceX Suited Testing

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http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic15482/message1811841/#message1811841   

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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell speaks to the AOPA High School Aviation STEM Symposium
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AOPALive

Опубликовано: 7 нояб. 2018 г.

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell talks about successes and failures in their rocket program, encouraging girls to pursue technical and scientific careers and "build big machines. She tells teachers at the AOPA High School Aviation STEM Symposium about the need for kids with training in science, technology, engineering and math.

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[Чебурашка]

DM-1 предварительно на 8 января
60 дней

Currently, the DM-1 mission is tentatively scheduled to occur no earlier than January 8th, 2019

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/spacex-return-action-lsp-status-upgrade/