MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax) - The cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky have finished training at NASA's Johnson Space Center for a flight as members of the 73rd long duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos said.
"The cosmonauts studied the systems in the ISS' U.S. segment, trained in standard operations and practiced emergency responses," the state corporation said in a statement on its website on Tuesday.
The launch of a Crew Dragon spacecraft with the Crew-10 mission crew atop a Falcon-9 carrier rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida is scheduled for February 2025; that of Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with the ISS-73 crew atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from Baikonur, for March 2025, the statement said.
In the U.S. "training was provided for the Souyz MS-27 crew (Ryzhikov, Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim) and the entire ISS-73 expedition also including the Crew Dragon spacecraft's Crew-10 mission crew (NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Kirill Peskov)," Roscosmos said.