"After the dissolution of the Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos gained all the rights related to contracts and agreements once concluded by the FSA, including those with foreign organizations. Thus, the contract concluded between FSA and NASA for the delivery of astronauts on the ISS is automatically transferred to the state corporation Roscosmos and is on technical restructuring at the moment," the press-service said in a statement.
In 2013, NASA signed a modification to its decades-long contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for full NASA crew transportation services to the ISS. Last year, NASA extended the nearly half-billion dollar contract with Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS as US Congress failed to extend funding of state spacecraft development.
