SPACEX PREPARES FOR DRAGON C2... Last weekend, the next
Dragon spacecraft to soar into low-Earth orbit as early as mid-December arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This capsule will launch on SpaceX’s second demonstration flight under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
(COTS) program. The first COTS flight lifted off in
December of 2010, and only called for Dragon to briefly orbit the Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later.
Dragon C2, or COTS Demo Flight 2, on the other hand, would involve the spacecraft docking with the International Space Station
(ISS) for the first time. This depends, however, on NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency both approving SpaceX’s inaugural docking attempt at the ISS.
If the docking attempt is not approved by the two government space agencies for C2, then Dragon will merely fly near the ISS to test rendezvous procedures in December, while the docking itself will occur on another flight
(Dragon C3) early next year.
NASA / Charisse Nahser
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