NASA will acquire two seats on the "Union" for flights to the ISS

It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the website of American public procurement beta.sam.gov.

It is noted that one of the places NASA intends to acquire on the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft and one more on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft.

It is specified that this will allow the Americans to ensure the stay of at least one US astronaut on the ISS at least until September 2021.

On October 4, Sergey Krikalev, Roscosmos’s Manned Space Program Executive Director, announced that in 2020 Russia would send the all-Russian crew of the Soyuz transport manned spacecraft to the ISS.