Roskosmos specialists listed the flaws of the SpaceX Crew Dragon of SpaceX by Ilona Mask, should from material in the magazine of the Russian Space Corporation. Among the shortcomings, experts called the inconvenient design of the ship, the placement of engines behind the wall of the cabin and the lack of a normal toilet.
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Experts questioned the safety of the crew near the “couple of tons of toxic fuel components” that are supplied under pressure to the engines of the emergency rescue system. The article also notes the capacity of the ship’s cabin. She, according to experts, is much more spacious than the Soyuz spacecraft, since it is designed for seven astronauts. At the same time, NASA cut the crew to four people. “It turns out that in order to solve its main task – the delivery of people to the ISS – the new ship so far looks oversized,” the article says.
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During each use, the toilet was separated from the rest of the cabin with a symbolic screen, which was complained by astronauts flying on the shuttle, as indicated in the article. At the same time, the article notes that the Crew Dragon is more reliable and cheaper than the shuttles operated before the US in 2011.
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This is not the first statement of Roskosmos about Crew Dragon. At the end of May, after launching the ship into orbit, the official representative of the state corporation Vladimir Ustimenko said that Roskosmos “did not see anything unusual in a successful launch.” “The hysteria that arose after the successful launch of the Crew Dragon ship is not very clear. What happened was to happen a long time ago, ” wrote he’s on twitter.
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