Roskosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin denied reports on the negotiations of the State Corporation and American Spacex company about the delivery of Russian astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of Crew Dragon ships. He wrote about it on his page in twitter .
Rogozin published the news that Roscosmos is negotiating the delivery of astronauts to the ISS using Crew Dragon, commenting on it.
“No, do not. Why? We have our own ships,” he wrote.
On April 24, the head of the American company Spacex Ilon Mask called the interest of the delivery of Russian astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon.
Earlier by the head of NASA Steve Yurchik in a conversation with Spaceflight Now called the possible time of flights of Russian astronauts on American Crew Dragon and Starliner spacecraft. 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.
The fact that Russian Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov in the near future can go to the International Space Station (ISS) at Crew Dragon, reported in March “Interfax” with reference to the head of the center of training of astronauts Pavel Vlasov.