Bush Signs Bill Ending Limits On NASA Soyuz Purchases

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File photo of a Soyuz launching Expedition 7 to the ISS.

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 24, 2005
U.S. President George Bush has signed a bill passed by the U.S. Congress ending restrictions on NASA's use of Russian Soyuz spacecraft for flights to the International Space Station, the White House said Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports.

The document allows the United States to pay Russian organizations for work conducted on or services provided for the ISS. The bill, which amends the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000, allows NASA to cooperate with Russia on the ISS, including the possibility of using Soyuz craft to ferry American astronauts to the station.

The act linked NASA-Russia cooperation on the ISS to the observance by Russia of the ban to deliver certain weapons and technologies to Iran.

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Has America And Russia Lost Control Of The High Ground

Moscow (UPI) Nov 19, 2005
Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will meet in January 2006 to formalize the joint operation of the International Space Station (ISS), which is the only international manned space program today.

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