NASA's budget for 2022 does not provide for the purchase of additional seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for flights to the International Space Station (ISS), but the United States hopes to continue flights on mutual exchange. This was announced on May 28 by a representative of NASA.
"This budget contains no plans to purchase seats on the Soyuz ,but we still have an interchange agreement on your (Russian) and our ships, so there are no purchase plans, but we have plans to use this ship nevertheless," the representative said at a briefing on the publication of the NASA budget request for fiscal year 2022. The broadcast was conducted on the agency's website.
On March 10, the press service of Roscosmos said that the agreement on cross-flights on the Russian Soyuz and American CrewDragon to the ISS is under discussion. The state corporation noted that such flights will become possible after the United States completes tests of new ships and confirms their safety.
On May 12, it became known that Roscosmos plans to conduct 16 launches of launch vehicles from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes until July 2022. It is noted that in the period up to July 2022, three launches of a heavy-class rocket are expected. These include: Proton-M and eight Soyuz-2 rocket launches from Baikonur, as well as five Soyuz-2 launches from Vostochny.
