“As for the 'cross-country' flights, we are talking about ... the fall of 2022, when we plan to send Russian cosmonauts on a SpaceX spacecraft, and then NASA astronauts will fly on the Soyuz,” TASS reports.
He added that they discussed an intergovernmental agreement to be concluded by the US State Department and Russian ministries.
Earlier, the executive director of Roskosmos for manned space programs, Sergei Krikalev, said that flights of Russian cosmonauts on Crew Dragon spacecraft, and American astronauts on Soyuz, would begin no earlier than next fall.
In November, Vladimir Dubinin, deputy head of the Cosmonaut Training Center for Science and Development, said that Roscosmos and NASA had compiled a preliminary list of Russian cosmonauts who would be trained on the Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of future "cross" flights to the International Space Station.