The cost of a ticket on a Soyuz taxi mission to the ISS will go up $1 million to $21 million, the head of RSC Energia said Thursday. Nikolai Sevastyanov blamed “growth in the cost of materials and components used in the construction of the Soyuz spacecraft” for the cost increase. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should: last month Roskosmos said that Soyuz ticket prices in general would be going up to $21.8 million because of increased costs. That report said that what tourists would pay is negotiated individually and “considered a commercial secret”; someone apparently forgot to tell this to Sevastyanov.
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