part of the crew of the International Space Station in 2017 approved, informs the site of the state Department of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This sends TASS referring to NASA.
Among the participants of the program will be four students currently preparing for his first space flight.
After two years on the ISS fly two teams, which included enter Russian and US astronauts.
At the fifty-first expedition will include three experienced cosmonauts from Russia (Novitsky, Misurkin Tikhonov), besides the astronaut Peskvet of the European Agency astronaut Whitson from NASA. But the leadership of NASA fears that the ship will not be ready by that date. The Congress of the United States has so far refused to allocate in 2016 for this purpose the necessary budgetary resources requested by the Obama administration. Meanwhile, according to reliable information available to date, the media, the extension of the agreement will give an opportunity to deliver US astronauts to the ISS on board the “Soyuz” to the end of 2018. Russian side will be paid for these services are an additional $ 490 million.
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