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To begin with, in 2011, the United States stopped manned shuttle flights, and therefore all astronauts on the ISS, for example, Delivered to Russian “unions”. However sending one astronaut to space station costs NASA 82 million dollars.
But the point is not even in this high price, but in the prestige of the country, plus (or minus) to that – the relationship between the United States and Russia in recent time, to put it mildly, not friendly, why in the services of Russian “alliances” the Americans suddenly sharply “disappointed” …
For this reason, the United States is intensifying preparations for own manned flights. And the surprise is just this preparation, which is not conducted by NASA, which should seem to have considerable experience in this matter, and private companies – SpaceX and Boeing.
The company Ilona Mask was supposed to send the first test to the ISS capsule with astronauts this month, however, the Dragon will fly only in March and so far without a pilot. And only if successful, manned flight will be carried out in July of this year.
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Boeing, in turn, is also preparing to launch a capsule Starliner (no astronaut in April, and manned at best case in August). In this case, NASA has a choice which of these the two companies will continue to entrust manned flights to International Space Station, and in the future – to the moon and Mars.
Moreover, the program manager of the NASA commercial crew Katie Luders presents it all as something extraordinarily outstanding, which will not only allow the United States on its own (without the help of Russia) deliver astronauts to the ISS, but also focus more fully on the development of the Orion capsule and the SLS program as a whole, oriented for the delivery of Americans to the moon and (hereinafter) on Mars.
All this looks somehow strange: as if the United States were not conquerors of the moon, not to mention orbital flights on shuttle, but take only the very first steps in space exploration. Naturally, the conspiracy therapists immediately remembered that during the meetings American astronauts after their flights into space (preserved records), they always behaved somehow too vigorously for people only that returning to Earth. Not to mention the shuttle explosion Challenger in 1986, whose “dead” crew members are still long live (someone under a stranger, and someone under his own name). What for Americans also needed this hoax – a complete secret? But a reasonable question arises (especially looking at today’s attempts with sending manned crews into space), and whether Americans generally anywhere outside of the earth’s atmosphere without saying already about the moon? ..
Of course, this is only the assumption of conspiracy theorists, but it seems too believable, don’t you find? ..
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