State Space Corporation Roscosmos

NASA has approached Roscosmos about adjusting the schedule and crews of upcoming Soyuz missions to allow for potential longer stays for its astronauts.

NASA plans to purchase two additional Soyuz seats from Roscosmos to ensure uninterrupted access to the ISS in case of delays in U.S. commercial crew launches.

On 2019-02-13, NASA issued a procurement notice to purchase two Soyuz seats from Roscosmos, with one seat on a mission in the fall of that year and the other in spring 2020.

NASA filed a 2019-02-13 procurement intent to buy two Soyuz seats from the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos to ensure U.S. presence on the station into 2020.

In late 2016 NASA officials said it was too late to contract directly with Roscosmos for Soyuz seats because of the multi-year lead time required.

NASA regularly bought Soyuz seats from Roscosmos in the post-shuttle era while developing commercial crew vehicles.

Yury Koptev is head of the Roscosmos scientific and technical council and has identified that lunar exploration requires more than creating a super-heavy rocket, including circumlunar flights, lunar surface operations, experiments, and combining manned flights with probes.

Roscosmos estimated the cost of developing the Yenisei rocket and building associated infrastructure at 1.5 trillion rubles, approximately $22,700,000,000.

Roscosmos is not scheduled to award any additional funding for a moon program before April 2019.

GK Launch Services is a Roscosmos subsidiary created to sell and operate commercial launches of Soyuz-2 rockets from Vostochny and other Russian launch sites.

Jim Bridenstine indefinitely postponed a planned February visit to the United States by Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin on 2019-01-04.

NASA informed the Russian space agency Roscosmos that the proposed visit of Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin planned for February 2019 would need to be postponed and no new date had been identified.

Roscosmos is the Russian space agency that builds and launches Soyuz spacecraft.

Soyuz MS-11 is scheduled to launch on 2018-12-03 carrying NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques.

Roscosmos received a preliminary report into the Soyuz MS-10 accident on 2018-10-20 and set a final report due on 2018-10-30.

The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos.

Roscosmos planned in early October to complete the investigation into the Soyuz MS-09 hole by mid-November after a cosmonaut spacewalk, and that spacewalk was postponed after the Soyuz MS-10 launch failure.

Dmitri Loskutov, head of the international cooperation department at Roscosmos, indicated that the Roscosmos investigation is ongoing and that the agency expects additional information after the 2018-11-15 EVA.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, said in a meeting the month before 2018-10-01 that Russia cannot afford to take a back seat in foreign projects like the U.S.-led Gateway, according to the Russian news service Tass.

Dmitry Loskutov is head of international relations at Roscosmos and Russia anticipates continued ISS functioning until 2028 or 2030.