Space travel: NASA postpones flight to ISS due to risk of drowning

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EThat sounds paradoxical. The sun may have shone on the space base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, but the SpaceX rocket and its crew of four will not depart this Sunday due to bad weather.

NASA has postponed the start of Crew 3 mission to the “International Space Station” ISS with German astronaut Matthias Mauer at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday, German time. The U.S. space agency refers to weather conditions – not in the launch pad, but in the airspace with storms and high waves in the Atlantic.

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If a capsule containing humans had to explode in an emergency while flying in space and land in the Atlantic Ocean, it would be a phrase for the most dangerous conditions. Elon Musk, the billionaire and founder of the space company SpaceX, attempted to explode the then unmanned capsule during a spectacular test after flying 84 seconds in January 2020.

It worked. Engineers developed a recovery plan for the problem in the upcoming SpaceX rocket. Then the brand new Dragon capsule can split itself with eight emergency missiles and land on a track.

The capsule can float

The system is activated automatically, but can be run manually. It is also possible at the launch site when refueling the rocket.

The emergency landing area for the airstrip and capsule travels along the U.S. East Coast in Florida, in the direction of Newfoundland, almost after departing for Ireland via the North Atlantic. It will always be pitted.

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The capsule could swim, but the storm and high waves expected this Sunday pose a much greater risk to crews of four, even if rescue crews are able to get to the crew. NASA and SpaceX are talking to meteorologists and rescue teams.

The U.S. Air Force will be on standby at key locations along the airstrip as the Dragon Capsule maneuvers. If the capsule fell within a radius of 370 km around Cape Canaveral, that is, shortly after takeoff, a rescue version of the C-130 Hercules and two large military helicopters (HH-60 Pave Hawk) were used. U.S. Air Force planes will also be parked outside.

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The mission, known as the “Cosmic Kiss”, was carried out by a team of four – German and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, in addition to NASA colleagues Thomas Marshburn, Raja Sari and Kyla Baron. Nevertheless, the weather risk is now very high for NASA.

Safety has always been a priority, with every postponement of rocket launching being told. In previous voyages of unmanned dragon capsules, it was stated that in addition to good weather at the launch site at 50 locations on the runway, acceptable conditions should prevail.

Explosion occurs

In October 2018, during the ascent, it was shown that the unmanned capsule would explode the rocket. At that time, the Russian Soyuz mission MS-10 was launched with a crew of two from Pyongyang, Kazakhstan. After about two minutes of flight, the capsule recovery system was triggered at an altitude of about 50 km due to a technical malfunction in the rocket.

The disassembled capsule then flew to an altitude of 93 kilometers and landed on a parachute within 20 minutes of takeoff. However, the crew had a lot of physical exertion and accelerated six to seven times due to gravity.

So when you are seven times your own body weight you are stressed. Unlike SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, Soyuz capsules land on the ground. The high waves in the Atlantic do not play a role in the Soyuz launch from Bikaner.