Anna Kikina is the first Russian cosmonaut to fly on Crew Dragon. The flight is scheduled for 2022, said Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the Roscosmos state corporation.

“Anya Kikina will fly to the ISS in the fall of 2022 as part of the crew of an American commercial spacecraft as part of Roscosmos-NASA cross-flights. Accordingly, we will include a NASA astronaut in our crew on the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft, "Rogozin wrote on Twitter.

He also said that due to international applications, more manned Soyuz spacecraft are needed, and In 2023, they may be built to the detriment of the production of cargo.

"By 2023, we have tension in connection with the appearance of additional applications for these flights," RIA Novosti quotes Rogozin. “Today I gave instructions to revise the program for the production of transport vehicles in favor of manned ones, because we have two applications.”

The program for manned flights to the ISS for 2022 is already ready, Rogozin said, and stressed that, in addition to tourist flights, discussing possible expeditions of specialists from different countries, for example, Belarus or Turkey.

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