Despite the war in Ukraine, Russian astronauts and American astronauts will continue to flights to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. TASR informs about this, referring to Friday’s DPA report.
The Russian Space Agency Roskosmos will send it in the first half of 2026 to the ISS cosmonaut Olegauta Artemjev, which the American spacecraft Crew Dragon will be transported there by the private company Space X as part of the Crew-11 mission.
According to current plans, the American Astronaut Anile Menon Samolenko will fly into space in the Russian boat in the summer of 2026. NASA states on its website that he is a doctor of urgent medicine and a clinic of American aviation. He was born in Minnesota State by Ukrainian and Indian parents.
The head of the Coat Center of the Cosmonauts JA Gagarina Maxim Charlamov has already announced in January that the joint program of flights that It was contracted only by the end of this year, it will continue.
ISS is one of the few areas in which Russia and Western countries still cooperate even after the start of the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine. However, Moscow has announced several times withdrawing from this program, as it plans to start building its own orbital station in 2027. According to the current situation, the cooperation at the ISS should continue until at least 2028.
