The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Roscosmos plan to continue the programme of interplanetary flights to the International Space Station, according to Ken Bowersox, head of the US space agency’s manned spaceflight programme, on Monday 9 September.
“We are still working on the necessary agreements, but we intend to continue the program of cross-border flights… This is important for both Russia and the United States.” — Bowersox said in an interview with TASS.
The US official added that one of the reasons why no deals have been concluded yet is the uncertainty over the situation with the Boeing Starliner ship. According to him, Roscosmos is not yet confident enough in the reliability of the ship to send its cosmonauts on it.
At the end of August, NASA reported that there had been changes in the composition of the SpaceX Crew-9 crew, as a result of which the American astronaut would be on the ISS together with Nick Hague Roscosmos cosmonaut to depart Alexander GorbunovThe decision to change the composition was made by NASA’s chief astronaut. Joe Just Finished. It is reported that the crew will start no earlier than September 24.
Earlier on August 21, Roscosmos announced the composition of the ISS crew for the period 2025-2026. It is reported that Russian cosmonauts will fly to the station on Soyuz MS-27 in March 2025. Sergey Ryzhikov AND Alexey Zubritsky. In 2026, Soyuz MS-29 will fly to the ISS Petr Dubrov, Sergei Korsakov AND Anna Kikina.
