2023年3月5日

俄羅斯航天局宇航員安德烈·費迪亞耶夫(Andrey Fedyaev)準備在機組6上發射。美國宇航局和俄羅斯航天局正在努力更新一項協議，讓俄羅斯宇航員在今年秋天登上Crew-7，在2024年登上Crew-8。華盛頓——NASA正在與俄羅斯政府合作，更新一項協議，允許俄羅斯宇航員在接下來的兩次SpaceX機組人員輪轉任務中飛往國際空間站。3月2日，美國宇航局負責太空行動的副局長凱西·呂德斯(Kathy Lueders)在發布Crew-6簡報會後發表評論說，正在與俄羅斯航天局更新現有協議，將Crew-7任務添加到空間站，計劃於今年秋季發射。兩家機構之間最初的座位交換協議於2022年7月敲定，每年用一個聯盟號座位交換一個乘務龍座位。在宣布這項協議時，美國宇航局表示，宇航員安娜·基金娜和安德烈·費迪亞耶夫將分別乘坐Crew-5和Crew-6，但沒有說明後續任務的任務。在1月25日的新聞發布會上，美國宇航局國際空間站項目經理喬爾·蒙塔爾巴諾(Joel Montalbano)表示，秋季有關Crew-7的討論正在進行中。“我們還沒有最終確定秋季的計劃，但我們正在繼續朝這個方向努力，”他說。呂德斯表示，在Crew-6發射後，將Crew-7納入協議的更新工作正在進行中。她說:“我們正在通過俄羅斯政府，然後顯然是通過我們這邊來達成最終協議。” “That’s our goal, to get this to be able to support integrated crews.” Such “integrated crews,” where there is one American astronaut on each Soyuz launch and one Russian cosmonaut on each commercial crew launch, is intended to ensure operations of the station should either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles be unavailable for an extended period. “With the addition of the Crew-7 agreement we would have coverage for Crew-7 and Crew-8,” the following Crew Dragon rotation mission planned for 2024, Lueders said. The agreement does not cover flights by Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicle, which has not yet flown astronauts. That vehicle’s Crew Flight Test, which will carry two NASA astronauts to the station, is scheduled for the latter half of April , NASA and Boeing officials said in February. That would allow crew rotation missions, also called post-certification missions (PCMs), to begin in 2024. “At some point, when we have gone through our Crew Flight Test with Boeing and an initial PCM-1 mission, we would be looking at also adding Boeing to an integrated crew agreement,” Lueders said. “We would like to continue that every single crew rotation mission has integrated crew on it.” While the negotiations for adding Crew-7 to the seat barter agreement continue, Roscosmos is preparing for it to be approved. In a March 1 post on its Telegram social media account, it announced that Konstantin Borisov would be part of Crew-7 mission and Alexander Grebenkin would fly on Crew-8. The post added that Crew-8 would launch in the first half of 2024, suggesting Roscosmos expects it to take place before the first Starliner crew rotation mission. Related