NASA and International Partners Approve Year-Long Space Station Stay
“NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed to send humans to new destinations in the solar system. The crew members, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut, will launch and land in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and are scheduled to begin their voyage in spring 2015.”

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3 replies on “Long Duration Missions Aboard the ISS Approved”

  2. Keith which came first the Russians selling the Soyuz seat to Sarah Brightman for $51M and thus forcing NASA into this 1 year duration. Or NASA really wanted to do this and it opened up the tourist seat? the cynic in me says the Russians have us over a barrel and the 1yr duration is just us trying to save face.

  3. The Russians have wanted this for a long time now but NASA did not

    dues not surprise me now this is happening 

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