Kelly is honoring a request from NASA.
But recent statements by Rogozin and Roscosmos have put that partnership at risk, Kelly explained in the op-ed.
Last month, Rogozin"threatened to let the space station de-orbit and crash into the United States ," Kelly wrote."More troublingly, last week Rogozin tweeted a strange portraying Russian cosmonauts separating the Russian segment and flying away from the space station after waving goodbye to American astronaut Mark Vande Hei."
Vande Hei is scheduled to come home March 30 with two cosmonauts aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Kelly noted. So,"the video seems to threaten to leave him behind, an unthinkable violation of the trust built between our two countries in space over decades," he wrote."I was appalled, so Kelly ended the op-ed with a plea for peace.
"Putin must end his unlawful and immoral assault on the Ukrainian people, and Americans and Russians must work together to maintain our commitment to our shared humanity and the International Space Station. There is too much to be lost if we don't," he wrote.
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