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Subject NASA just signed a new deal to pay Russia $70 million PER SEAT, to American astronauts hitch a ride on Soyuz.
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Original Message I remember last year NASA closed a deal to pay $60 something million, for 3 years or so, now the contract suddenly changed again with a cost of $10 million more.

NASA has signed a new deal that will keep American astronauts flying on Russian spacecraft through early 2017 at a cost of $70.7 million per seat — about $8 million more per astronaut than the previous going rate.

The $424 million deal, which was announced today (April 30), is good for six seats aboard Russia's Soyuz space capsules. Under the agreement, Soyuz vehicles will now ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station through 2016, with return and rescue services extending until June 2017. The previous contract provided Soyuz flights for NASA astronauts through 2015, at a cost of roughly $62.7 million per seat.

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