Roscosmos CEO Dmitry RogozinMOSCOW, Jan 22 Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that he was going to request the head of NASA on the situation with cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, who was denied a visa by the United States. «But this is not the case at all. I will request the position of the head of NASA on this incident,» Rogozin wrote on Twitter. that the United States, without explanation, did not issue a visa to Russian cosmonaut Chub, who was going to undergo training at the Johnson Space Center before his flight to the International Space Station in the spring of 2023. All Russian cosmonauts undergo such training, including the study of the American segment of the ISS. Chub joined the Russian cosmonaut corps in 2012, he has no flight experience yet. Earlier it was reported that, together with experienced cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and another newcomer Andrey Fedyaev, he was appointed to the crew of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which will depart for the station in the spring of 2023.
The Commission approved the ISS crews for 2022-2024
