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Russia has earlier threatened to suspend its mission unless the United States, the European Union and Canada lift sanctions
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May 2, 2022 • 16 hours ago • 1 minute reading • 35 comments Actress Julia Peresild enters the International Space Station on October 5, 2021, after Russia launched an actress and film director into space in an attempt to defeat the United States before filming the first film in orbit. Photo by HANDOUT / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos
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The head of Russia’s space program said Moscow would withdraw from the International Space Station, state media reported, blaming sanctions on the invasion of Ukraine.
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“The decision has already been made, we are not obliged to speak about it publicly,” Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told Tass and RIA Novosti in an interview with state television on Saturday. “I can only say this – in accordance with our obligations, we will inform our partners about the end of our work on the ISS with one year’s notice.
Earlier this month, Rogozin threatened to end Russia’s mission unless the United States, the European Union and Canada lift sanctions against companies involved in Russia’s space industry.
Until the war, the Orbital Research Space Station remained a rare area of cooperation between Russia and the United States and its allies, despite ever-deteriorating relations. But Russia’s unprecedented international isolation since it invaded Ukraine in February marked the death of this symbol of joint space exploration.
Three Americans and an Italian astronaut docked at the space station on Wednesday, joining three other Americans, three Russians and a German already on the ISS.
NASA, which plans to operate the space station by 2030, has continued to use Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to transport astronauts to and from the ISS since the shuttles withdrew in 2011. The U.S. space agency now relies more on private spaceflight. Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched four astronauts for NASA and the European Space Agency on Wednesday.
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