Interdepartmental commission for the selection of cosmonauts approved the main and duplicate crews of long expeditions, which will go to the International Space Station on the transport pilotable ships “Union MS” in 2022-2024.
confirmed flight (the approval itself took place in May 2021) in the main crew of the ISS-67, flying on the ship “Union MS-21” in March 2022, astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.
For the first time in the history of the ISS project, the crew of the Union will include three Russian professional cosmonauts.
confirmed the flight in the main crew of the ISS-68 (approved in May 2021), flying on the Soyuz MS-22 ship in September 2022, the astronauts of Roscosmos SERGEY Prokopyev, Dmitry Pleetin and Anna Kikina.
In addition, the crews of the Soyuz MS ships with starts in 2023-2024 for the first time included astronauts of the recruitment of 2018: Konstantin Borisov, Alexander Gorbunov, Alexander Golubkin, Alexey Zubitsky, Sergey Mikaev and Oleg Platon.
In the case of signing between Roskosmos and NASA, the “cross-” agreements on the ISSA Anna Kikin is planned to be introduced into the main crew of the Crew Dragon (USCV-5 flight), the launch of which is assumed in August 2022, and instead of the main Soyuz MS-22 ship crew – NASA Astronaut Francisco Rubio.