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What ESAS Wanted – and What NASA Will Get

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 4, 2008

Griffin not optimistic about new deal to buy Soyuz rides, Spaceflightnow

“My own guess is at this point we’re going to have some period in 2012 where there’s no American or international partner crew on station, that there’s only the Russians there,” he said. “That period always ends three years from when we have a contract with the Russians. So if we can get through all this by June of next year and have a contract with the Russians, then in the latter part of 2012 we can fly a Soyuz flight and restore things to normal.”

NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study — Final Report, Nov. 2005, Executive Summary, section 1.1.1

“Dr. Michael Griffin was named the new NASA Administrator in April 2005. With concurrence from Congress, he immediately set out to restructure NASA’s Exploration Program by making its priority to accelerate the development of the CEV to reduce or eliminate the planned gap in U.S. human access to space. He established a goal for the CEV to begin operation in 2011 and to be capable of ferrying crew and cargo to and from the ISS.”

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