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NASA will pay $51 million for each seat on the Soyuz

Moscow, Russia - The only reliable vehicle to reach the ISS

Russian space agency (Roscosmos) and NASA reached the deal on the price that the American agency will have to pay to let its cosmonauts use the Soyuz spaceships to reach the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012. As reported today by Alexei Krasnov of Roscosmos the agreed cost is of $51 million for every seat on board. "We have reached an agreement with NASA - Krasnov said - to increase the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1104393
Rome, Italy, 05/13/2009 18:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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