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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is scheduled to speak by phone with Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, on 2021-06-04 regarding Russia’s willingness to continue participating in the International Space Station program.

Roscosmos and CNSA will present a roadmap for creating the ILRS at a GLEX 2021 event on 2021-06-16.

Roscosmos will fly actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to the International Space Station on Soyuz MS-19 launching 2021-10-05.

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei arrived at the International Space Station on 2021-04-09.

Roscosmos and First Channel received around 3,000 auditions and forwarded a shortlist of 20 actresses to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, will announce the Russian actress who will be sent to the International Space Station on Soyuz MS-19 from among four finalists on 2021-05-15.

Roscosmos plans to revise a research and power module originally intended for the Russian segment of the ISS into the core module of a standalone Russian station that could be complete in 2030.

Axiom Space purchased a seat on Soyuz MS-18 from Roscosmos and swapped it with NASA in exchange for a seat on a future commercial crew mission, enabling NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to fly on Soyuz MS-18.

Roscosmos has a deadline for Russia’s work at the station, agreed with ISS partners, of 2024.

Roscosmos will decide after the 2024 deadline whether to continue at the ISS based on the technical condition of the station’s modules and plans to deploy a national next-generation orbital service station.

Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are scheduled to end their mission on the International Space Station on Friday, 2021-04-16.

NASA previously purchased seats directly from Roscosmos but used the Axiom Space transfer as a stopgap while working on a seat-exchange agreement with Roscosmos.

Soyuz MS-18 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on 2021-04-09 carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

Roscosmos and China signed a memorandum of understanding in February 2021 to develop an International Lunar Research Station likely at the Moon’s south pole.

Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Roscosmos, cited a power surge as the reason for postponing the Soyuz-2.1a launch.

Roscosmos reported that a commission meeting at Baikonur on 2021-03-20 considered test results of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket following a technical malfunction and decided to launch on the morning of 2021-03-22.

Roscosmos posted that the 2021-03-20 Soyuz-2.1a launch was postponed to a backup date and later rescheduled for 2021-03-21 before being rescheduled for 2021-03-22.

NASA acquired Mark Vande Hei’s Soyuz MS-18 seat through an exchange with commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space rather than by purchasing it directly from Roscosmos.

Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov are scheduled to launch on Soyuz MS-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, 2021-04-09.

Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration, and Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of Roscosmos, signed the memorandum during a virtual meeting on 2021-03-09.