Soyuz MS-22 crew starts training together with NASA astronaut Rubio

MOSCOW. Feb 25 (Interfax) - The crew of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is training together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio who could join it if Russia and the United States sign an agreement on cross flights, the crew commander, cosmounaut Sergei Prokopyev, said.

"Yes, of course, it has begun. We've trained together at the base in Houston. We met together, and he visited us here," Prokopyev said, answering a question by Interfax.