51th expedition formed of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskogo Alexandra Misurkin , Nicholas Tikhonov , Native American Peggy Whitson and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Peskveta. They are expected to be at the station at the time of the first flight of new spacecraft Boeing CST-100, and Dragon, to test if funds are made available.
In the future, NASA plans to send its astronauts to the ISS on their own ships, but now they are not yet ready. For participation in the program of the Russian side will receive an additional 490 million. Dollars.
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