The flight of a fully Russian crew on board the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft is scheduled for March 18, 2022. This was reported on August 31 by the Russian Space magazine, which is the official publication of Roscosmos.
So, on the specified date, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will fly into space. The last time a fully Russian crew went to the Mir space station was in 2000.
The landing of the Soyuz MS-19 lander with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Pyotr Dubrov and astronaut Mark Vande Hai is scheduled for March 28.
In addition, on February 16, 2022, the first launch of the Progress cargo ship is planned, and the second in June. Two Soyuz MS-19 re-docks are also expected in February and March.
On August 24, it became known that Russian cosmonauts will go into outer space from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 3 and 9, that is, a day later than planned. It was expected that cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov would go into outer space on September 2 and 8, but at the request of the American partners, the exit was postponed.
