Russia extends cross-flight program with NASA until 2025 - Roscosmos

[December 28, 2023]  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's space state agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that a cross-flight program with NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) had been extended until 2025, Interfax news agency reported.  

A visitor walks past the logo of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos is pictured at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Schoenefeld, south of Berlin, Germany, June 1, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/ File photo

The cross-flights were extended "in order to maintain the reliability of the ISS operation" and will be carried out on Russian and U.S. spacecraft, Roscosmos said.

The cross-flights involve sending one American astronaut to the ISS as part of the crew of a Russian spacecraft, and vice versa - one Russian cosmonaut as part of an American crew, Interfax reported.

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

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