Space travel
USA and Russia extend cooperation in space
Space travel is one of the few areas in which Americans and Russians have still been working together since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression. photo
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On Earth, relations between Moscow and Washington are on ice. Americans and Russians still work together in space. Mixed teams are scheduled to fly to the ISS up to and including 2025.
Most recently, US astronaut Loral O’Hara launched to the ISS in September with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Niolai Tschub on board a Russian Soyuz capsule.
The ISS is one of the few things on which Americans and Russians are still working together after the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine broke out at the end of February 2022. Cosmonauts and astronauts also fly to the space station together.
Due to the tensions, Russia has since announced that it will stop cooperation after 2024 and build its own space station. However, since setting up the station takes time, Moscow later announced that it would consider staying on board the ISS until 2028.