Souiz MS-14
The uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on approach to the ISS Aug. 24. Its docking was aborted because of an apparent problem with the Kurs automated rendezvous system on the station. Credit: NASA

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — NASA expects to buy at least one more Soyuz seat from Russia to provide assured access to the International Space Station should commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...