Moscow. January 13. INTERFAX - The Starliner ship being developed by Boeing will be able to dock to the Russian orbital station being developed, Sergey Kravchenko, the head of Boeing in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS, told Interfax.
"NASA and Roscosmos have developed a system that will ensure the compatibility of docking modules of different spacecraft with different stations. Boeing's new reusable spacecraft, the Starliner, will also use this system," Kravchenko said, answering a question about whether work is underway to harmonize the technical standards of the spacecraft's docking vehicles and prospective stations.
"Starliner was created in order to be able to dock to various objects in near-Earth orbit, and we hope that in the future, with the potential appearance of new stations, we will have more and more customers," he added.
On November 26, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that at the moment the state corporation and NASA are discussing the issue of docking the American Crew Dragon ship with the Russian Berth module. According to him, the docking will be possible if a docking interface is created.
Later, the deputy head of the ISS program at NASA, Dana Weigl, said that the agency had not held discussions with the Russian side about the docking of these systems.
Rogozin also reported on an agreement with NASA on the mutual integration of the docking nodes of the promising Russian ship "Eagle" and the American lunar Gateway station.
Boeing is developing a manned spacecraft CST-100 Starliner under a contract with NASA. Like SpaceX, it was chosen by the American Space Agency as a developer of new systems for delivering American astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX has already completed several such regular missions with the help of its Crew Dragon ships. At the moment, the third SpaceX spacecraft is docked to the ISS, which arrived at the station in early November. Meanwhile, Boeing is still at the stage of testing its ship in unmanned mode.
