26 Dec 2025 10:39
Cosmonaut Fedyayev cleared for Crew Dragon mission – Cosmonaut Training Center
MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax) – Cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev has been cleared for a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station (ISS), which is due in February 2026, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center said in a statement on Thursday.
“The MMC [Main Medical Commission] has cleared USCV SpaceX Crew 12 member and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev for the space flight under the cross-flight agreement,” the statement said.
The commission included representatives of the Cosmonaut Training Center, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biomedical Problems, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, the Russian Defense Ministry, and the Russian Health Ministry.
“Additionally, the MMC cleared Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Teteryatnikov for training as a crewmember,” the statement said.
The Crew Dragon Crew-12 flight to the ISS is scheduled for no earlier than mid-February 2026.
Cosmonaut Fedyayev will go to the ISS under the Russian-U.S. cross-flight agreement.
Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement in July 2022 as part of the ISS program to ensure flights of Russian cosmonauts by U.S. Crew Dragon manned spaceships and U.S. astronauts by Russian Soyuz MS manned spaceships.