Official representatives of the Roscosmos denied information about the use of Russian components on the camera Crew Dragon. Subsequently, the us side modified the site that was created under contract with Boeing.
Ships Space Shuttle has received the androgynous peripheral docking Assembly. Reciprocal engines of the Russian production, which is designed for docking to the ISS were installed on a certain segment of the station. When the ship completed the flight, according to the contract with Boeing has a special adapter. He is an APAS adapter to the docking Assembly, made according to international standards.
Over time, Boeing modified the adaptor by means of elements made in the USA. They were installed on the units of APAS in the American part of the ISS. This Assembly, where there is the logo of JSC RSC “Energia”, recently often mentioned in the media.
Recall that on may 30 this year the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the participation of the ship’s Crew Dragon. For the first time in the last nine years, American astronauts went to the ISS in the Russian Soyuz.
