NASA ordered 4 Russian spacecraft

On Friday 11 November, the head of Russia's space agency said NASA would order Russia to build four spacecraft, while US spacecraft were still buried at least from now on. until May 2006.

Director of Russia's spacecraft production plant RKK Energuia, Nikolai Sevastianov said: ' NASA ordered our two Soyou and 2 Progress '.

' While the number of US spacecraft flights has been increasingly shortening from 28 to 17, Russia intends to transfer astronauts from the National Space Station to Soyouz spacecraft '.

At the end of last October, the US Congress agreed to change the 2000 law that does not allow the use and sale of Russian space technology achievements as long as Russia sells nuclear technology to Iran.

To be enforced, these modifications need to be approved by the US president.

On July 28, Nasa decided to once again bury the three remaining spacecraft, after losing a part of Discovery's outer container when it was launched on July 26.