Earlier it became known that the launch of the Crew-5 mission with Kikina is scheduled for October 3.

“NASA and SpaceX aim to launch the Crew-5 mission to the ISS no earlier than 12:23 ET (19:23 Moscow time -

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) on October 4,” RIA Novosti reported.

In addition, the US Aerospace Agency did not rule out that the launch could take place on October 5th.

On July 15, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on cross-flights of crews on Russian and American manned spacecraft.

The crew also includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Kassada and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata.