NASA: Russia and the United States will conduct cross flights to the ISS in the fall of 2022
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Russia and the United States will conduct cross flights to the International Space Station (ISS) in the fall of 2022. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the statement of the coordinator of the NASA program on the ISS, Joel Montalbano, as part of a press conference on the dispatch of the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the ISS.
“Our plan [to launch a cosmonaut] as part of Crew-5 in the fall of 2022. We plan to send a Russian cosmonaut in Dragon and an American astronaut in Soyuz,” Montalbano said.
According to him, the countries have entered into an intergovernmental agreement, NASA is waiting for its approval from the Russian government.
“We discussed the intergovernmental agreement necessary for this, which should be concluded by our State Department and Russian ministries. The preliminary agreement has already passed the State Department and is now on the Russian side, “- said the coordinator of NASA.
He also noted that Russian cosmonauts have already begun training in the United States for flights on the American Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Earlier, Roskosmos revealed the schedule of rest of Russian cosmonauts on the ISS on New Year's holidays. Anton Shkaplerov and Petr Dubrov will rest on the ISS for only two days: January 1-2, and from January 3 they will begin work and preparations for a spacewalk.
