The launch of a Soyuz to the ISS was postponed at the request of NASA
The launch of manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" to the international space station (ISS) was postponed for two weeks, said Last news in the press service of the Roscosmos.

The launch of manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" to the international space station (ISS) was postponed for two weeks, said Last news in the press service of the Roscosmos.
in the crew of "Soyuz MS-13" enter the citizen of Russia Alexander Skvortsov, Italian Luca Parmitano and American Andrew Morgan.
at the end of March, NASA asked Russia's Roscosmos to postpone the Launch of "Soyuz MS-13" and extend his flight until February 2020 to ensure the presence at the station three astronauts in the event of delays in testing of new American manned ships.
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 was a test flight to the ISS of the Dragon-2 unmanned. In July, the expected flight of the Dragon-2 with the crew, but it is possible to transfer it at a later date. In the last month of summer and November planned test 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 will not go quickly and ships are required to obtain the necessary qualifications for flight crews 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 ".
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