NASA released the sum of its new contract with Roscosmos: Russia will receive $ 424 million for the delivery of six American astronauts to the ISS in 2016 and the first half of 2017.
preparation and shipment of an American astronaut has increased by almost $ 6 million (from $ 65 to $ 70.6 million), the newspaper writes The Telegraph. Such a jump in prices has caused discontent in NASA.
After the termination of the programshuttle flights in 2011, the Russian “Soyuz” were the only way to deliver U.S. astronauts to the ISS.
Previously, the program to combat the crisis, the U.S. government cut budget of the commercial operations of $ 25-30 million
Recently NASA chief Charles Bolden declared that if Congress went against the space agency and allocated additional funding, not cut back to him, the extension of the contract with Russia would not be necessary. Bolden urged the Obama administration to provide full funding for NASA in 2014.
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