Cosmonaut Fedyayev to go to ISS on Crew Dragon spaceship in mid-Feb 2023 - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax) - Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev is planning to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on the SpaceX Crew Dragon-6 manned spaceship in the middle of February 2023, Roscosmos said.

"Andrei Fedyayev, cosmonaut of the Roscosmos state corporation, is due to travel to the International Space Station by the U.S. Crew Dragon manned spaceship as a member of Crew 6 in mid-February 2023 consistent with the cross-flight program," it said.

The other members of Crew 6 will be NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg and UAE astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi.

A Falcon 9 launch vehicle coupled with the spaceship will take off from Area 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will go on a six-month mission.

In July 2022, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on the cross-flights of three Russian cosmonauts onboard U.S. Crew Dragon spaceships and three U.S. astronauts onboard Russian Soyuz MS spaceships within the ISS program's framework in 2022-2024.

Two ISS missions are underway under the agreement: a Russian Soyuz MS-22 operated by Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio flew to the station in September, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina arrived at the ISS in October onboard Crew Dragon 5.