The head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Dmitri Bakanov, arrived in the United States to talk to NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, Roscosmos announced.
This is the first meeting between the managers of the Russian and American space agencies in eight years, according to the same source.
As part of this trip, Dmitri Bakanov will significantly go to the Lyndon B. Jonhnson Space Center in Houston and visit a Boeing factory in charge of the CS-100 Starliner construction project, according to the press release.
It will also meet with the crew of the Mission of the crew-11, which includes a Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and whose takeoff to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Dragon Ship ship is scheduled for Thursday.
Last cooperation field
Dmitri Bakanov will also participate in press conferences before and after this launch, respectively on July 30 and 31, according to NASA’s website.
During the meeting with Sean Duffy, Minister of American Transportation appointed in early July by Donald Trump to the NASA boss, “we are going to talk about the search for the Russian-American crossing program to the ISS, as well as the next withdrawal of the orbit of the International Space Station for its immersion in the sea, said Dmitri Bakanov, cited by Rosmos.
The space is one of the latest areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States, whose relations are at its lowest point due to the conflict in Ukraine, although the two countries have recently assumed the leadership of US President Donald Trump.
As part of the sanctions against Russia, which launched an offensive in Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries ended their association with Roscosmos, but Soyuz Russian ships remain one of the only ways to send crews to the ISS.
Source: BFM TV
