Launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome of the manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" to the international space station (ISS) in July has the ability to be postponed for two weeks at the request of NASA, said Last news on Thursday a source in the rocket and space industry. first, Roskosmos announced that the launch of the spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" to the ISS is scheduled for July 6. Its crew will include a Russian citizen Alexander Skvortsov, Italian Luca Parmitano and American Andrew Morgan. The return vehicle from the ISS to Earth is planned on 18 December. according to his statement, this will enable NASA to provide a presence on the American segment of the station until February 2020 not one but three astronauts in the event of delays in testing of new American manned ships. "Roskosmos" Last news did not explain this data. in 2011, was decommissioned by the American reusable manned space transportation system Space Shuttle. The crew then delivered to the ISS only Russian " Soyuz ". In the US designed fresh manned spacecraft: Dragon-2 (Crew Dragon) - the SpaceX firm and Cockpit - Boeing firm. in March held a test flight to the ISS of the Dragon-2 unmanned. In July, expected test flight of the Dragon-2 in manned mode, but it is possible to transfer it at a later date. In the last month of summer and November are outlined, respectively, the testing of unmanned and manned flights of the ships Cockpit. then the ships Dragon 2 and the Cockpit will be certified by NASA for house missions to the station crews. The General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the test of the new American piloted ships quickly will not end, the crews are required to qualify for flight on them until the spring of 2020. first it was announced that NASA's budget in 2020 fiscal year contains mention of the possibility of concluding a contract with "Rosatom" for the purchase of 2 seats on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to deliver American astronauts to the ISS in autumn 2019 and spring 2020. In June 2019, on the ship "Soyuz MS-11" with the ISS will return to Earth latest the astronauts under the agreement between NASA and " Roscosmos ", and in the early winter of 2019 on the ship "Soyuz MS-13" the last will land astronauts on the contract between NASA and Boeing, which won seats on Soyuz from RSC Energia in payment of the debt for the project " Sea start ". <span style="color:darkgray