MOSCOW, December 29< /strong> Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin completed training before his flight to the ISS at the Cosmonaut Training Center; in early January 2024 he will go to the United States, where he will continue to train with his fellow crew members of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the Cosmonaut Training Center reported.
“”Alexander Grebenkin has completed his pre-flight training at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Today, the cosmonaut, a participant in the Crew-8 mission, completed the final examination training on knowledge of the Russian segment of the ISS… In the first days of the new year, Alexander Grebenkin will go to the USA, where he will continue pre-flight training together with colleagues on the crew of Crew-8,” says a message on the CPC Telegram channel. 
It is noted that in During the training, Grebenkin conducted medical research, performed an experiment on observing the earth's surface, and worked with life support systems. At the final stage of the examination training, the cosmonaut encountered an emergency situation – depressurization.
The launch of the American spacecraft Crew Dragon with participants in NASA's eighth manned mission is scheduled for February 2024 from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida, USA.
Earlier, Roscosmos reported that the program of cross flights from NASA to the ISS has been extended until 2025 inclusive.
The agreement between Roscosmos and NASA on cross-flights assumes that the crew of the Russian spacecraft will send one American astronaut to the ISS, and the crew of the American spacecraft will include one Russian cosmonaut.
The first such ship was the Soyuz MS-22 with Frank Rubio in the crew. A couple of weeks later, Anna Kikina went to the ISS on Crew Dragon. In March 2023, Fedyaev arrived on the ISS on Crew Dragon (mission Crew-6), who has now been replaced by Konstantin Borisov.
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