NASA has purchased an additional Soyuz seat from Russian space agency, as a failsafe, to ensure it will have a ride to the ISS
4 years, 7 months ago

NASA has purchased an additional Soyuz seat from Russian space agency, as a failsafe, to ensure it will have a ride to the ISS

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NASA would compensate for bumping a Russian cosmonaut from the flight by flying their cargo to the ISS on a US-built spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be shelling out more than $90 million to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, to purchase one additional Soyuz seat for a launch this fall. The negotiation has been done “to ensure the agency keeps its commitment for safe operations via a continuous US presence aboard the International Space Station until commercial crew capabilities are routinely available.” Commercial crew program US commercial crew providers will be available in 2020-2021 and the US space agency would no longer need to buy a Soyuz seat, reported Space.com quoting NASA spokesperson Stephanie Schierholz. American astronauts were launched on the Russian Soyuz rocket wherein each seat would cost up to $86 million per seat, and around $55.4 million on average reported NASA’s Office of Inspector General. According to OIG estimates, seats on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will cost the American space agency about $55 million per seat for the first six missions.

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