NASA

Jessica Meir will hand over command to the Russian cosmonaut before Crew-12 returns to Earth

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to launch on Crew Dragon on October 1

Crew-13 began final preparations for Falcon 9 launch to ISS

The crew also includes US and Japanese astronauts

NASA and SpaceX specialists are conducting additional checks of the spacecraft and have not yet announced a new launch date

The mission will involve two "Progress" spacecraft and a specially developed American USDV spacecraft

After installing "patches," no more leaks observed in the Zvezda module

The US wants to coordinate ISS missions with Roscosmos for another year to a year and a half

The spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut will land in Kazakhstan

Launch of the first ROS module is scheduled for 2028, full deployment by 2034

The number of spacecraft is already in the hundreds and thousands

After that, Russia and the US will develop their own orbital projects

The parties may extend their joint work beyond 2028, and then move on to their own orbital projects