Mtsogoleri wa Spacecraft wosankhidwa ku SpaceX Crew-6 Mission

Akatswiri a zakuthambo a NASA Stephen Bowen ndi Woody Hoburg adzakhala ngati mkulu wa ndege ndi woyendetsa ndege, motsatira, pa ntchitoyi. Othandizana ndi bungweli padziko lonse lapansi asankha anthu ena ogwira ntchito ngati akatswiri a mishoni mtsogolomo.

Ntchitoyi ikuyembekezeka kukhazikitsidwa mu 2023 pa roketi ya Falcon 9 kuchokera ku Launch Complex 39A ku NASA's Kennedy Space Center ku Florida. Bowen, Hoburg, ndi ogwira nawo ntchito padziko lonse lapansi alumikizana ndi gulu lankhondo lomwe likukwera pamalo okwerera mlengalenga.

Uwu ukhala ulendo wachinayi wa Bowen kupita mumlengalenga ngati msilikali wakale wa maulendo atatu oyenda mumlengalenga: STS-126 mu 2008, STS-132 mu 2010, ndi STS-133 mu 2011. Bowen wadutsa masiku oposa 40 mumlengalenga, kuphatikizapo maola 47, Mphindi 18 mumayendedwe asanu ndi awiri. Anabadwira ku Cohasset, Massachusetts. Ali ndi digiri ya bachelor mu engineering yamagetsi kuchokera ku United States Naval Academy ku Annapolis, Maryland, ndi digiri ya masters mu ocean engineering kuchokera ku Joint Programme in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering yoperekedwa ndi Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ku Cambridge, Massachusetts, ndi Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ku Falmouth, Massachusetts. Mu Julayi 2000, Bowen adakhala msilikali woyamba wapamadzi wosankhidwa kukhala wamlengalenga ndi NASA.

Hoburg adasankhidwa ndi NASA ngati wasayansi mu 2017 ndipo uwu ukhala ulendo wake woyamba kupita kumlengalenga. Amachokera ku Pittsburgh ndipo adapeza digiri ya bachelor mu aeronautics ndi astronautics kuchokera ku MIT ndi doctorate mu engineering yamagetsi ndi sayansi ya makompyuta kuchokera ku yunivesite ya California, Berkeley. Pa nthawi yomwe adasankhidwa kukhala wamlengalenga, Hoburg anali wothandizira pulofesa wa aeronautics and astronautics ku MIT. Kafukufuku wa Hoburg adayang'ana njira zabwino zopangira makina opangira uinjiniya. Iyenso ndi woyendetsa ndege yemwe ali ndi zida, injini imodzi, komanso ma injini ambiri.

NASA's Commercial Crew Programme imagwira ntchito ndi makampani a zakuthambo aku America kuti apereke zoyendera zotetezeka, zodalirika, komanso zotsika mtengo zopita ndi kuchokera ku International Space Station pamaroketi opangidwa ku America ndi zowulutsa zakuthambo zochokera ku dothi la America.

Kwa zaka zoposa 21, anthu akhala akukhala ndikugwira ntchito mosalekeza mu International Space Station, kupititsa patsogolo chidziwitso cha sayansi ndi kusonyeza matekinoloje atsopano, zomwe zimapangitsa kuti kufufuza kusakhale kotheka pa Dziko Lapansi. Monga ntchito yapadziko lonse lapansi, anthu a 244 ochokera kumayiko 19 adayendera labotale yapadera ya microgravity yomwe yakhala ndi kafukufuku wopitilira 3,000 ndi kafukufuku wamaphunziro kuchokera kwa ofufuza m'maiko ndi madera 108.

Sitimayi ndi njira yoyesera kwambiri kuti NASA imvetsetse ndikuthana ndi zovuta zakuwuluka kwa nthawi yayitali komanso kukulitsa mwayi wamabizinesi mumayendedwe otsika a Earth. Monga makampani azamalonda amayang'ana kwambiri popereka chithandizo chamayendedwe a anthu ndikukhazikitsa chuma chokhazikika cha Earth-Earth, NASA ili ndi ufulu kuyang'ana kwambiri pakupanga ma spacecraft ndi maroketi kuti apite ku Moon ndi Mars.