“We officially invited the leadership of NASA to ourselves, but we did not receive a response. I hope that he will follow, and will follow in a positive way, ”the press service of Roscosmos quoted him as saying.
On May 12, it was reported that Roscosmos and NASA signed a contract for the delivery in autumn 2020 of one American astronaut to the ISS on a manned spacecraft Soyuz MS.
As noted in NASA, the agency will pay more than $ 90 million for a place for an astronaut on the Soyuz.