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MOSCOW, Jan 22The refusal to issue a US visa to Nikolai Chub calls into question the safety of a Russian cosmonaut's flight to the International Space Station, the Roscosmos press service told reporters on Saturday. Earlier, a RIA Novosti source said that the United States did not issue a visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub without explanation , which was going to undergo training at the Johnson Space Center before its flight to the ISS in the spring of 2023. All Russian cosmonauts undergo such training, including the study of the American segment of the station. Later, Roskosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that he would ask the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, about this situation. The press service explained that cosmonaut Nikolai Chub needs an exit American visa to participate in the first five-week session to get acquainted with the American segment of the ISS. «/>January 20, 11:37 NATO turns space into an arena of hostilities, the Foreign Ministry said»Without lectures and practical exercises on the layout of the American segment, acquaintance with the operation of its systems, understanding the interaction between the systems of the American and Russian segment, as well as taking a course on actions in an emergency in principle, it is impossible to fly into space,» the press service said. It is noted that no one will send an unprepared crew into space. Therefore, the organizers of the training will at least have to change the training schedule for Nikolai Chub. Even if the visa issue is resolved promptly, the training program will have to be revised, the press service stressed. Nikolai 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.January 19, 15:57Russian cosmonauts spotted strange dust flying out of the ISS