In an interview with The New York Times, the head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin previously clarified that the state corporation plans to carry out one cross-flight per year in 2022-2024 together with NASA.
MOSCOW, February 24. /tass/. Work on the agreement with NASA on cross-flights continues, and cooperation on the ISS also continues. This was reported to journalists in the press service of Roscosmos on Thursday.
"Roscosmos continues to fulfill its international obligations to maintain the operation of the ISS, work on an agreement on cross-flights is also underway," the state corporation reported.
Earlier, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told reporters that cosmonaut Anna Kikina could be the first to fly on the American Crew Dragon ship under the cross-flight program in 2022. In turn, Kikina noted that she was pleasantly surprised by this decision of the management. In an interview with The New York Times, Rogozin clarified that the state corporation plans to carry out one cross-flight per year with NASA in 2022-2024.
Earlier, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the United States should not destroy space cooperation with Russia, this could lead to a premature curtailment of joint work on the ISS and other dramatic consequences. He wrote about this on Facebook, answering the question whether the decision "to send troops to Donetsk" could negatively affect the unfinished agreements between NASA and Roscosmos on "cross-flights" and the extension of the space station until 2030.
