NASA announced the flight of Crew Dragon with a Russian cosmonaut to the ISS on March 12

Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will fly to the International Space Station (ISSC) on March 12 on the Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the Crew-10 crew. This was reported in the press service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) on February 11.

"The launch of Crew-10 is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, subject to mission readiness and completion of the flight readiness certification process," the press service said in the material.

In addition to Peskov, the crew of the ship includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nicole Ayers, as well as Takuya Onishi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is specified that the team from Crew-9, which is currently on the ISS, will return to Earth immediately after handing over all business to the newly arrived crew.

Along with the Crew Dragon spacecraft, astronauts Nick Hague, Sunita Williams, Barry Eugene Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, who were scheduled to arrive on Earth back on June 14, will return from the ISS.

Earlier, on February 7, Roscosmos reported that Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Oleg Platonov will fly to the ISS on American Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2025 and 2026. The state corporation said that Roscosmos and NASA had concluded an agreement to extend the program of cross-flight to the ISS of Russian cosmonauts on American ships and American astronauts on Russian ships.