Two months ago we learned that NASA thought expand the contract Russia to continue using the Soyuz spacecraft. By then it was unknown how much pay Roskosmos NASA to send astronauts to the ISS twelve between January 2014 and June 30, 2016. Now we know will eventually be $ 753 million . In the latest agreement, NASA paid $ 335 million to send six astronauts into four Soyuz until 2013. That is, the cost of each seat has been increased to 62.75 million. It is true that this figure includes training in TsPK (Star City) and 50 kg of payload for each astronaut to launch and 17 kg in the descent module of the Soyuz.
We'll always have the Soyuz (NASA).
from 2012, Soyuz will be the only vehicle capable of sending astronauts to the ISS and, of course, Roskosmos has decided to exploit this monopoly. Yes, not overdo it, since it is only an increase of 8.5%. NASA hopes that by the end of 2016 its astronauts to travel in a commercial aircraft program result CCDev (Dragon, Prometheus, etc.).. Hopefully he's right.
The Soyuz TMA-19 during the separation maneuver the ISS (NASA).
And since we are on the Soyuz, we will put the beautiful and recently released emblem of the Soyuz TMA-02M , which should take off in May this year:
On the other hand, here is the list of upcoming expeditions to the ISS until the end of 2013:
Of course, there may be some dance dates, especially due to the postponement of the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21.
We'll always have the Soyuz (NASA).
from 2012, Soyuz will be the only vehicle capable of sending astronauts to the ISS and, of course, Roskosmos has decided to exploit this monopoly. Yes, not overdo it, since it is only an increase of 8.5%. NASA hopes that by the end of 2016 its astronauts to travel in a commercial aircraft program result CCDev (Dragon, Prometheus, etc.).. Hopefully he's right.
The Soyuz TMA-19 during the separation maneuver the ISS (NASA).
And since we are on the Soyuz, we will put the beautiful and recently released emblem of the Soyuz TMA-02M , which should take off in May this year:
On the other hand, here is the list of upcoming expeditions to the ISS until the end of 2013:
Of course, there may be some dance dates, especially due to the postponement of the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21.
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