After 2018 places in the manned Soyuz spacecraft on a repeated basis will implement space travelers. Therefore, Roscosmos plans to compensate the loss of the contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International space station (ISS).

"To compensate for the reduced demand for manned transport ships on the similarity of the "Union" after 2018 is expected by restoring a brief expeditions to the Russian segment of the ISS on a commercial basis", - is told in the final quarterly report of the parent organization of the Russian space Agency in the field of manned spaceflight - JSC "RSC "Energia".

As informs the newspaper "Izvestia", currently vacant positions of the third member of the crew on the Soyuz spacecraft NASA buys: at the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, Americans have not left working space ships, and they use "Unions". Delivery of an astronaut on the ISS, and then back to Earth is 76 million in conjunction with the preparation.

Contracts with NASA on delivery crews to the ISS expire in 2017 and the Americans intend to extend them for one year, because expect that in 2018 will be held fully test their new manned spacecraft. For starters, we are talking about SpaceX Dragon and CST-100 from Boeing.

In Russia understand that the market monopoly of manned space flight is projected short-lived. In addition, the risk of reducing the demand for Russian ships without improving their technical and cost data on the world market also increases. "Until 2018 more a very long time, - says Igor Burenkov, official dealer of Roscosmos. - Focus is understandable, but to make a statement about the specifics early."

Many experts are sceptical about the possibility to implement space in Soyuz space tourists. In the 1-x, the demand for such tours to the ISS is unlikely to be stable, and 2, it is necessary to prepare our own personnel and to provide space astronauts. Note that from 2001 to 2009 on Soyuz to the ISS flew 8 people. According to some reports, the flight of the actress Sarah Brightman will cost its sponsors at $ 52 million. Flew in front of her to the ISS tourist father Cirque du Soleil, guy lalibertö? in 2009 paid about us $ 35 million.
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