NASA Confirms First Bridenstine-Rogozin Meeting October 11 In Kazakhstan

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein will hold their first meeting next week in Kazakhstan, NASA announced in a statement on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 03rd October, 2018) Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein will hold their first meeting next week in Kazakhstan, NASA announced in a statement on Wednesday.

"On October 11, American Astronaut Nick Hague and Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin will launch to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan," the statement said. "Administrator Bridenstine is scheduled to attend the launch and plans to meet with Mr. Rogozin. This will be their first in-person meeting."

NASA said in the statement that Rogozin and Bridenstine on September 12 discussed over the telephone the leak at the International Space Station.

In September 2017, Roscosmos and NASA signed a Memorandum on Cooperation on the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway project.

The United States offered Russia to construct an airlock module for discharging cosmonauts on the platform.

However, a source told Sputnik in April that Russia was dissatisfied with its role in the project because it was suggested the unit should be built under US standards to ensure that solely US space suits can be used on the platform.

On September 22, Rogozin said Russia would not participate in the project in its current form and would instead create its own lunar orbital project or possibly an international one.

Bridenstein responded that the United States was looking forward to a partnership with Russia in developing a lunar orbital space station.