January 12, 2014 – 23:44
U.S. Cygnus capsule has reached the International Space Station ( ISS ). At the end of the trip, the second of eight planned so far, the capsule is docked to the space station and started the download of the fifteen tons of food was specially sent for astronauts who work aboard the station . Cygnus , which is a capsule produced by an American company, the Space X , he delivered for the occasion tools and equipment for the various missions in progress on ISS .
scrapped the Shuttle , the Nasa has an agreement with the Space X . The aim of Use , also in order to lower the costs of missions that provide human spaceflight is to be able to bring in the next three years aboard the International Space Station of their crews, which currently is only with Russia Soyuz spacecraft . In project Cyrus , which cost over one hundred billion dollars are involved 15 nations, including the ‘ Italy .
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