Anna Kikina just made spaceflight history.
"As far as future work. I think everybody's well aware we signed an agreement with Roscosmos for one flight this year, one flight next year and one flight in '24," Joel Montalbano, NASA's ISS program manager, said during a postlaunch press conference today.
Those cosmonaut-flying crew-swap missions will all employ SpaceX vehicles. If possible, NASA aims to continue this international cooperation with Boeing's capsule, which is set to fly its first crewed test flight to the ISS in early 2023, Montalbano added. and hopes that the other program partners will do the same; if that happens, the agency will seek to extend the seat-swap agreement with Roscosmos beyond 2024, Montalbano said.
Some sort of extension appears to be likely. In recent months, Russian space officials have said that the nation plans to leave the ISS program after Russia gets its own space station up and running in Earth orbit. However, the Russian outpost isn't expected to be operational until
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