Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, both cosmonauts with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, are set to complete routine maintenance and upgrades outside of the station, according to NASA.

Gorbunov kept his seat aboard the Crew 9 Dragon under a contract between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, in which three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft carry one NASA astronaut ...

Later, Russia committed to working with NASA to keep the orbital outpost flying only through 2028. The US space agency has expressed a consistent desire to keep flying the station until 2030 ...