Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and NASA are holding negotiations on the mutual provision of seats on spacecraft flights to the International Space Station, Roscosmos representative in Kazakhstan Anatoly Krasnikov said at a briefing Tuesday. This reported by TASS.

"Currently, the Roscosmos state corporation and NASA are in negotiations on the mutual provision of seats for flights to the ISS. We are considering a situation when Russian cosmonauts will fly on American spacecraft and American astronauts will continue flying on our spacecraft. Clearly, this is a pressing need because we all see that a new system for the transport of people to the ISS has emerged," Krasnikov said.

He noted that ISS crewmembers must be able to operate both transport systems to "conduct mutual backup."

"Of course, there is interest in that from both the Russian and American sides," the representative noted.