NASA Considers Buying New Rides To Space From Russia Amid Delays
NASA Considers Buying New Rides To Space From Russia Amid Delays
A possible purchase "provides flexibility and back-up capability" as the companies build rocket-and-capsule launch systems to return astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from U.S. soil for the first time since NASA's Space Shuttle program went dark in 2011.
NASA said it could buy a seat for one astronaut in the fall and another seat in the spring of 2020.