NASA and its partners in the International Space Station announced the composition of the 51 th and 52 th expedition, conceived in 2017. This is stated on the website of the US agency.
Among the participants of the program will be four students currently preparing for his first space flight.
At the fifty-first expedition will include three experienced astronauts from the Russian Federation ( Novitsky, Misurkin Tikhonov), and another astronaut Peskvet of the European Agency and astronaut Whitson of NASA. US and Russia have identified new project participants. However, at the moment it created a spaceship that on the basis of existing plans now will be able to send American astronauts aboard the ISS , but also to take them with him already in 2017. This follows from the report on the approval of NASA member countries of the expedition ISS. Prior to that, head of NASA Charles Bolden has sent a letter to the Congress of the United States, which notified the extension of the contract with the Russian Space Agency for the delivery of astronauts on the ISS. The Russian space agency will bring American astronauts to the “Soyuz” for an additional $ 490 million.
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