US EditionRussian and US Space Chiefs Meet to Discuss Continued Cooperation
RUSSIA, JUL 31 – The extension preserves crucial US-Russia space collaboration despite political tensions, with Roscosmos and NASA agreeing to operate the ISS for four more years, officials said.
- Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov met NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy in Houston on Thursday for the first in-person talks since 2018 about ISS cooperation.
- The meeting followed Russia's earlier indication it might leave the ISS program after 2024 but later showed a willingness to continue collaboration amid tensions over Ukraine.
- They discussed extending ISS operations until 2028, upcoming joint lunar and deep-space missions, and shared astronaut seat exchanges, including a November Baikonur launch with an American astronaut.
- Bakanov indicated that both parties decided to maintain operations of the ISS through 2028 and described their discussions as constructive, also mentioning plans to manage the station's deorbiting by 2030.
- The talks represent a rare area of US-Russia cooperation in space, preserving a 25-year-old platform for international research despite broader geopolitical divides.
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Russian and US space chiefs meet to discuss continued cooperation
Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more than seven years.
Russia and U.S. Agree to Extend International Space Station Operations to 2028
The head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Thursday that he had agreed with his NASA counterpart to extend operations of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028. Roscosmos said earlier this week that its chief, Dmitry Bakanov, had arrived in Texas to meet with NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy, marking the first visit to the United States by a Russian space agency head since 2018. “The conversation went well.
The US and Russia want to continue operating the International Space Station ISS until 2028.
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NASA's new temporary administrator on Thursday held a rare face-to-face meeting in Florida with Russia's space agency chief, where they discussed cooperation on the moon and maintaining the space powers' longstanding relationship on the International Space Station, Roscosmos said.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos and its American counterpart NASA have agreed to jointly use the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028, the director of Roscosmos announced.
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