Follow RT on Sergey Korsakov is the top candidate to become the first cosmonaut to travel to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, made by Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX, the Russian training center chief said.
Russia and the US are planning to perform
“mixed flights” to orbit, Pavel Vlasov, the head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, told Komsomolskaya Pravda radio on Sunday.
“It means that a Roscosmos cosmonaut will travel on Crew Dragon, and a NASA astronaut, on our ship.”
“Sergey [Korsakov] is one of the first contenders to fly on Crew Dragon. He has already completed the necessary procedures at NASA so that space gear could be made for him.”