Acting head of NASA Steve Jurik in a conversation with Spaceflight Now called the possible time of flights of Russian astronauts on American Crew Dragon and Starliner spacecraft.
According to the temporary administrator, the first flight will occur no earlier than the next year. According to Yrurchik, we are talking about the Spacex Crew-4 mission, the launch of which will be held no earlier than the first quarter of 2022.
Acting head of NASA noted that the draft version of the relevant “implementation agreement” between NASA and Roscosmos is still under consideration by the US Department of State. After the approval of this version of the Agreement by the State Department of the NASA and Roskosmos, should begin to discuss its final form.
The publication writes that after signing the agreement with all parties to the Russian cosmonaut, it will be necessary to obtain permission to travel to the United States, make an individual player and pass the basic preparation for flights to Crew Dragon.
Spaceflight Now notes that NASA is interested in cross-flights of astronauts and astronauts on American and Russian spacecraft.
In March “Interfax”, with reference to the head of the center of training of astronauts, Pavel Vlasov said that the Russian cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov in the near future can go to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon.
In May 2020, a heavy missile launch of Falcon 9 was held with Crew Dragon spacecraft with American astronauts on board to the ISS. The previous US time independently delivered people to near-earth orbit on July 8, 2011, when a reusable piloted spacecraft of ATLANTIS Space Shuttle program was started. After that, the Russian ships of the Soyuz series used to send people to the US ISS.