russian international space station again

We haven’t received any official word from the partner as to the news today, so we’ll be talking more about their plan going forward, ” Gatens said. And so they’re thinking about that transition as well. As we are planning transition after 2030 to commercially operated space stations in low earth orbit, they have a similar plan. “The Russians, just like us are thinking ahead to what’s next for them. Commercially operated space platforms would replace the ISS as a venue for collaboration and scientific research, NASA said.īut Robyn Gatens, director of the International Space Station for NASA, said that NASA hadn’t received any official word from Russia about the decision to quit the ISS. NASA said in February it intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be deorbited and crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. Undoubtedly, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov told Putin in the Kremlin-issued readout. “You know that we are working within the framework of international cooperation at the International Space Station. Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made.” Russia says it is planning to pull out of the International Space Station and end its decades-long partnership with NASA at the orbiting outpost, according to the newly appointed head of Russia’s space agency.

Russian international space station again