Moscow. January 22. INTERFAX - The crew, whose members have not been trained to work in the American segment, will not be able to be sent to the ISS, the press service of Roscosmos reported.
"No one will send an unprepared crew into space. Accordingly, the question arises at least with a change in the training schedule of Nikolai Chub for the upcoming flight in the spring of 2023. Even if the visa issue is resolved promptly, the training program will have to be revised," the press service said, commenting on the information about the US refusal to issue a visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub.
"Without lectures and practical exercises on the layout of the American segment, familiarization with the work of its systems, understanding the interaction of the systems of the American and Russian segment, as well as taking a course on actions in an emergency situation, in principle, it is impossible to fly into space," the press service of the state corporation added.
Earlier on Saturday, a source told Interfax about the US refusal to issue an entry visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub. According to the source, he was supposed to arrive at the Johnson Space Center for training.
The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, in turn, said that he would request the position of the head of NASA in connection with the situation.
Later, Rogozin called the refusal of a visa "a dangerous precedent for cooperation on the ISS."
"It never occurred to us to refuse a visa to any US astronaut who was heading to Star City to prepare for a space flight," he stressed.
