MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Two of the four space crews Russia’s Soyuz vehicles will take to the International Space Station ISS in 2017 will consist of two members, in contrast to the usual three, the Roscosmos corporation has said.

According to a statement from the space corporation’s press-service obtained by TASS, the main crew of the 51st/52nd expedition on board the ISS will consist of Russia’s Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronaut Jack Fischer.

The next expedition (52/53) to go to the ISS is Russia’s Sergey Ryazansky, US astronaut Randolph Bresnik and European astronaut Paolo Nespoli. Next year’s third expedition (53/54) will be by a joint Russian-US crew of two - Aleksandr Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei. And expedition 54/55’s crew is Russia’s Aleksandr Skvortsov, US astronaut Scott Tingle and Japan’s Norishige Kanai.