Chub
Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub received a visa to go to the U.S. for training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center after initially being rejected, Russian officials said.

A Russian cosmonaut has received a visa to come to the United States for routine space station training after initially having his application rejected, an incident that’s raised questions about how increased tensions over Ukraine might affect space.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...