Interfax source: US denied visa to Russian cosmonaut
For the first time in recent years, Russian-American cooperation in space exploration has faced the fact that the United States did not grant a visa to a Russian cosmonaut. We are talking about the refusal that Nikolai Chub heard in his address.
The Russian cosmonaut, by prior arrangement with NASA, was to go to the US Space Center (the L. Johnson Center) for training. This was reported by the news agency Interfax. According to the agency, Nikolai Chub could not go to the United States, as he was unexpectedly denied a visa.
According to the statement Interfax, citing a source familiar with the situation, did not give any specific reasons for refusing to issue an entry visa to the United States.
As a result, training events with the participation of the Russian cosmonaut at the moment turned out to be a big question.
It is known that Nikolai Chub should go into space in the first half of 2023. This flight will be his first.
If the situation with the visa is not connected with some technical problems or bureaucratic delays, then the trend looks alarming. In this case, the United States, apparently, is ready to go to confrontation in matters of space exploration. If so, then this could be a blow to space exploration, for which, in fact, there are no borders. But today these borders are artificially created by "partners" across the ocean.
Roskosmos does not comment on the situation at the moment.
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