Russia has decided to pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) project following Western sanctions imposed in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
"All I can say is that, in line with our obligations, we are giving our partners one year's notice of the end of our work on the ISS." - said Dmitry Rogozin, Director of Roszkozmos. A Bloomberg report from earlier this month, Rogozin threatened to end Russia's participation in the international space programme unless the United States, Canada and the European Union lifted sanctions against the Russian space industry.
The International Space Station was one of the few sites not affected by the war sanctions. So far, NASA has been able to use Russian Soyuz spacecraft to transport astronauts and equipment to the space station, but the deteriorating relations between Russia and the United States have led the space agency to request private space companies to do so. Last week, for example, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft carried three American and one Italian astronaut to the ISS. This is the first NASA mission in which women and men are equally represented.
NASA is scheduled to launch the retire the International Space Station, launched into space in November 1998. The spacecraft, also considered a symbol of peaceful scientific cooperation, made a spectacular descent into the Pacific Ocean "the "most desolate" part of the planet, the Nemo point.
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