Only days after Russia announced its plan to permanently to leave the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024, the nation's space officials have told NASA they expect to remain a part of ISS at least until their own outpost is built in 2028.
NASA says relations with Russian space agency Roscosmos remain "business as usual"Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA on Tuesday by announcing that Moscow intended to end the longstanding space station partnership "after 2024".
"We're not getting any indication at any working level that anything's changed," Ms Lueders said, adding that NASA's relations with Roscosmos remained "business as usual". Roscosmos published on its website an interview with Vladimir Solovyov, the flight director for the space station's Russian segment, who was quoted as saying Russia must remain on the station until ROSS was operating.
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