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NASA planned to obtain the Soyuz seat by providing similar in-kind services rather than by direct purchase from Roscosmos.

Roscosmos reported that director general Dmitry Rogozin spoke on 2021-02-25 with NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk about cooperation including the International Space Station program.

NASA is seeking to obtain one of the three seats on the 2021-04-10 Soyuz mission for an astronaut in exchange for in-kind services rather than purchasing the seat.

Roscosmos completed domestic proceedings to harmonize the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on cooperation to create the International Lunar Research Station.

Roscosmos plans to time the official announcement of plans to create the International Lunar Research Station to coincide with an upcoming international event.

Space Adventures and Roscosmos have contracts for two dedicated commercial Soyuz flights, with the first scheduled for December and the second planned for June 2023.

The agreement establishing partner contributions to the Gateway lists a Roscosmos-provided crew airlock with delivery in 2028.

Seven people have flown to the International Space Station as space tourists using available seats on Russian Soyuz missions funded by Roscosmos.

NASA officials were in talks with Roscosmos about potentially purchasing a second Soyuz seat for a mission launching in spring 2021.

NASA purchased a final Soyuz seat from Roscosmos in May for $90,250,000 to add Kate Rubins to the crew.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov is scheduled to launch at 1:45 a.m. Eastern on 2020-10-14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and dock with the International Space Station approximately three hours later.

A Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to launch 2020-10-14 with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov on board.

Jeanette Epps was scheduled to launch in mid-2018 on a Soyuz spacecraft with Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos.

NASA scheduled the station’s crew of NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner to remain in the Zvezda module from the evening of 2020-08-21 until the morning of 2020-08-24.

Soyuz MS-17 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on 2020-10-14 transporting NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.

NASA finalized a deal with Roscosmos earlier in the month for a Soyuz seat on a mission launching in October that will cost NASA more than $90,200,000.

Chris Cassidy arrived at the International Space Station in April on the last Soyuz seat NASA had available as part of a two-seat deal announced in early 2019.

The European Space Agency and Roscosmos delayed the ExoMars rover mission to 2022 because there was not enough time to qualify the spacecraft’s avionics and parachutes.

Roscosmos approved the primary crew for the next Soyuz mission on 2020-03-13, consisting of astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.

ESA Director General Jan Woerner and Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin instructed inspectors general and program chiefs to submit an updated plan and schedule covering remaining activities necessary for authorization to launch ExoMars 2020.