Russia will give up the International Space Station in 2025, marking the end of one of its few areas of successful cooperation with the West. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, said leaving ISS behind would allow Moscow to launch its own station by 2030. “We are starting negotiations with our NASA partners, we are formalizing them now,” he said on Wednesday. with Financial times. “It does not mean that the station will be scrapped and thrown into the ocean immediately after 2025. We will simply hand over responsibility for our segment to our partners.” The United States and Russia launched the ISS together in 1998, after four decades of fighting for supremacy in space. Space agencies in Europe, Japan and Canada have provided new modules and astronauts for the station. Earlier this year, Russia and China signed an agreement to jointly build a base in the Moon’s orbit.
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