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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to RUSSIA SPACE AGENCY

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 1993 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN1993-12-16·LATEST ACTION2026-06-15·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_NAS1510110_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

JOINT US/RUSSIAN HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT ACTIVITIES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on the 1993 U.S.–Russia human spaceflight partnership, funding joint activities through 2028.

Sub-sectors
human-spaceflightinternational-cooperationiss-operations
Why this matters

Sustains critical ISS crew transport and scientific collaboration despite geopolitical tensions; Russia remains sole U.S. crewed-launch provider absent domestic alternatives.

Supply-chain signal

Maintains dependence on Russian Soyuz vehicles for ISS access; underscores urgency of U.S. commercial crew program maturation.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S.–Russia space cooperation, though strained, excludes China from ISS; demonstrates Cold War-era partnership resilience amid great-power competition.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.003012.

Period of performance
Start
1993-12-16
End
2028-12-31
Status
activein 915 days
Sources

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