SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is set to launch this week. Ahead of this, NASA is doing every possible thing to enduring the threats of COVID-19. It is to protect the ground crew, astronauts, scientists, and potential visitors. NASA has also adjusted the approach just before the highly anticipated event that is to take place this week. If the launch will be a successful event, it would ultimately break the nine-year deficit of the US’s crewed launches to ISS. Also, it would be making a record of the private spacecraft carrying people into orbit for the first time.
During a press conference this month, Steve Stich (Deputy Manager of NASA-s Commercial Crew Program) said, “We’re taking extra precautions.” On the bottom, the mechanism is submitting temperature inspections and social distancing at Mission Control.
A prosperous launch expects dozens of communities who usually labor in nearby areas in closed rooms at Mission Control. For this launch, NASA is circulating them out in different rooms. “We need to make sure we are separating people as much as possible,” Smith said. They will sterilize the rooms regularly. “We’re looking at all the things where we can practice the guidelines for social distancing, and at the same time, launch this very important mission to the International Space Station,” he explained.
Possible Precautions Have Been Taken Before Ethe Launch
Radical vigilance is being put up with the Crew Dragon’s astronauts. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have been quarantined since May 13th. That’s an ordinary part of the trials for a mission. Crews leading the way to space invariably quarantine for an interval of time before launch. This is done to lessen the chance of taking any widespread infection of any kind into space.
They both will be tested for the novel CoronaVirus twice. Whomsoever will be interacting with the astronauts will have to wear masks and gloves.
Bridenstine said that in order to safeguard the astronauts and ground crew, NASA is restricting the number of visitors who can get to the space headquarters to watch the launch. The VIP catalog for this special event is very brief. Some members of Congress and the National Space Council will be present. They will not be authorized to bring along the staff. “We’re really trying to whittle it down to what is important,” he added.
“We’re asking people not to travel to the Kennedy Space Center,” Bridenstine also said. “We think it’s in the best interest of the agency and in the best interest of the nation if people join us by watching from home.”
Gwynne Shotwell, president and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, in a press release this month, has said, “It is a shame — NASA and SpaceX have worked so hard to get to the day, and the American public has come along this long journey with us.” But this is “the right thing to do.”
Even if the spectators would be present or not, things will be done as planned. There would be no change.
