Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub. File photoMOSCOW, January 22US authorities denied Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub a visa without explanation, an informed source told RIA Novosti. in issuing an entry visa to the United States without explaining the reasons,» the agency's interlocutor said. that traditionally all Russian members of the expedition are trained at the Johnson Space Center before flights to the ISS. They are studying, among other things, the structure of the American segment of the station in the same way as astronauts from the United States are preparing in Russia. The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that he would make a request to NASA on this situation. Nikolai Chub joined the Russian detachment in 2012, he must go into space for the first time. It was previously reported that, together with experienced cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and another newcomer Andrey Fedyaev, they will form the crew of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which will depart for the station in the spring of 2023.
The United States again denied a visa to a Russian diplomat to visit the UN
