21 Aug 2024 23:37

Roscosmos publishes list of crews flying to ISS in 2025-2026

MOSCOW. Aug 21 (Interfax) - Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation has published a list of crews that will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Soyuz MS manned spacecraft in 2025-2026.

The ISS-73 main crew that will fly on board the Soyuz MS-27 in March 2025 includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim," Roscosmos said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Jonathan Kim's flight will be performed under an agreement between Roscosmos and NASA in line with the ISS program of cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts on American Crew Dragon spacecraft and American astronauts on Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft," it said.

Under this agreement, Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov has been included in Crew Dragon's SpaceX Crew 10 mission scheduled to launch in February 2025.

The main crew of ISS Expedition 74 includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikayev, and Oleg Platonov, who should travel to the station on the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft in the second half of 2025, it said.

The main crew of Expedition 75 includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov, Sergei Korsakov, and Anna Kikina, who are scheduled to launch on board the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft in 2026.

In July 2022, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on cross-flights by three Russian cosmonauts on board U.S. Crew Dragon spacecraft and by three U.S. astronauts on board Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft in 2022-2024 under the ISS program.

In December 2023, Roscosmos announced extending the cross-flight agreement with NASA until 2025. Roscosmos Executive Director for Manned Space Programs Sergei Krikalev told Interfax that the additional agreement provided for two more cross-flights to the ISS in the period up to 2025.