Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina (Анна Кикина) will become the first Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS on the American Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of a flight exchange program. This was announced in his Telegram channel by Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin. Kikina will go into orbit in the fall of 2022. Accordingly, a NASA astronaut will be included in the crew of a Soyuz MS flight. Anna Kikina is the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut corps, in which she was enrolled in 2012. The upcoming flight will be her first orbital mission.
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