NASA has requested additional seats on Russian Soyuz on 2020-2021
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requested Roscosmos additional space on Soyuz spacecraft for its astronauts in 2020 and 2021. This was announced by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.
The head of NASA Brydenstein sent a letter to Roscosmos asking for additional seats on the Russian Soyuz in the 2020-2021 years due to delays in the program of building American ships to deliver astronauts to the ISS. According to Rogozin, this violates Roscosmos’s plans for a set of tests and experiments aboard the ISS, so a decision was made to allocate funds for the construction of two additional Soyuz spacecraft.
I received (...) a Brydenstein letter in which he refers to a certain situation related to the delay of commercial ships for the delivery of American crews to the ISS. Tests of American commercial ships will be completed no earlier than 2021 year. We will have to sacrifice something by reducing our crew to provide space for our American colleagues
- he said.
In early October, the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), James Brydenstein, said the United States did not intend to refuse to cooperate with Roscosmos to deliver astronauts to the ISS, despite the fact that “you have to pay for every place.”
Recall that in the framework of the program for the resumption of manned flights in the United States, new manned spacecraft have been developed: Crew Dragon by SpaceX and Starliner by Boeing. After conducting unmanned and manned flights to the ISS, they are expected to be certified by NASA and further used to deliver astronauts into orbit. While it is not known which ship it will be - Crew Dragon or Starliner, clarity will come only on the results of test flights.
Earlier in the United States, it was announced that the first manned flight of American astronauts on their own ship is planned for the 2020 year.
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