The only woman in the cosmonauts detachment of Roscosmos Anna Kikina (set 2012) positively refers to the ability to fulfill its first flight into space on the exchange program at the US spacecraft.
I learned about my flight on the American ship recently from the leadership and was pleasantly surprised to this sentence. I am very good for the opportunity to fulfill my first flight into space on the exchange program, “she said.
Earlier, the General Director of Roskosmos State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin said that it was decided to send to the International Space Station a woman-astronaut of the Russian Federation Anna Kikin on the American ship in September 2022.
At the moment, the necessary documents for the implementation of this decision are negotiating.