The deal had been in the works for some time and came a month after Putin fired Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin, who had a Twitter spat with Musk in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. via REUTERS Yuri Borisov (right, seen with Vladimir Putin) announced that Russia will be constructing its own space station. AP Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov pose with a flag of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic at the International Space Station (ISS), in this picture released July 4, 2022. NASA announced in February that the space station will be “de-orbited” in January 2031 after three decades and come hurtling down to Earth at 17,000 miles per hour. The space agency signed the deal with its Russian counterpart to exchange flights to the ISS, meaning American astronauts would hitch rides to the outpost aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft. Russian engineer Anna Kikina will depart from Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside two American astronauts and another from Japan, NASA officials said. NASA announced earlier this month that a Russian cosmonaut will be launched to the ISS in September aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon – which would mark the first time that Elon Musk’s company will transport a Russian on one of its space capsules. The declaration comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and the US over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yuri Borisov, a former deputy prime minister and deputy defense minister appointed earlier this month to lead the state-controlled Roscosmos, said Russia will meet its obligations to other ISS partners before pulling out of the project. Russia will leave the International Space Station at the end of 2024 and start construction on its own orbital base, officials announced Tuesday. Panicked NASA cancels spacewalks after ISS astronaut’s helmet ‘fills with water’ It is often visible over the UK at dawn or dusk. At the incredible speed of almost 8km/s, the ISS accomplishes one orbit around Earth in only 90 minutes. Kamala Harris jokes she’ll ‘write letters’ to space station after call dropsĮlon Musk’s SpaceX to fly Russian cosmonaut to International Space Station: NASA There is a kind of magic to the silent and majestic movement of the International Space Station as you watch it sail across the sky, and it makes for a great target to photograph. NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches
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