National Aeronautics and Space Space Research (NASA) discusses with Roskosmos the possibility of flight of Russian cosmonaut to the international space station (ISS) on board the Crew Dragon spacecraft. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the NASA program on the ISS Joeel Montalbano.
According to him, the American Agency prepares an agreement with the Russian State Corporation on Cross Flights. As part of it, the domestic cosmonaut can go to the ISS on the American ship in the fall of 2022.
Montalbano spoke at the press conference of the Mission Crew Dragon-3, which communicated with his colleagues from Roscosmos last week during his visit to Moscow and “tried to promote this agreement.”
“We made small changes, prepare the agreement to ensure that Roscosmos filed it for consideration to its ministry. Our goal is in the fall of 2022 to have astronauts in the framework of the Dragon Crew-5 mission and, under the contract, free of charge, in the same There is a time interval to have an American on the “Union”, “Montalbano said.
On the morning of October 6, it became known that the “Film Equipment” of the Soyuz MS-19 ship moved to the International Space Station (ISS), where the film “Call” will be filmed. Arrivals met commander Station Thomas Sand, Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, Japanese Akihiko Hoside and Astronauts USA Mark Wanda Hai, Shaine Kimbrow and Megan Macarur.
The main crew included the astronaut “Roskosmos” Anton Sluffers, director Klim Shipenko, Actress Julia Peresilde. All selected candidates were a special training of participants in the space flight, which lasted several months. It is expected that Peresild and Shinkenko will stay on the ISS 12 days