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Soyuz Fall 2020, Spring 2021 Missions To ISS Consist Of All-Russian Crew - Gagarin Center
Daniyal Sohail Published November 19, 2019 | 06:30 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th November, 2019) Foreign astronauts are not part of the planned Soyuz crew, set to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2020 and in the spring of 2021, data published by Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center reveals.
According to crew lists posted on the official website of the cosmonaut training center, the ISS-64 (Soyuz MS-17) mission, set to launch in October of next year, will include Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner, and Nikolai Chub. The next mission, ISS-65 (Soyuz MS-18), planned for spring 2021, will include cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Korsakov.
According to the current contract, the last US astronaut should travel to the ISS aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in the spring of 2020. If no seats aboard Soyuz are sold to foreign agencies by fall 2020, the Soyuz MS-17 mission will become the first mission to the ISS consisting of all-Russian crew.
At the end of October, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told reporters that Russia was ready to discuss with the United States future contracts for the delivery of US astronauts to the ISS on board Soyuz spacecraft.
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator James Bridenstine said in October that his agency could enter negotiations with Roscosmos to buy additional seats on the Soyuz spacecraft for missions to the ISS.
Since NASA suspended its Space Shuttle program in 2011, the United States has depended on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to carry astronauts to the ISS.
NASA has given contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to develop US spacecraft to transport crew to the ISS, but the new spacecraft are still in the testing phase.
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