It seems conflicts on Earth send ripples that are felt even in outer space; the Russian Federal Space Agency has announced that it plans to leave the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024. In a statement, the Russian space agency has stated that it will continue with ISS until US funding for American astronauts dries up in 2024. It would then have its own modules removed, and re-purposed to join a Russian-only station.
Last year, Russia had threatened to pull out of ISS by 2020 in response to sanctions that had been implemented by America.
“I propose the United States delivers its astronauts to the ISS with the help of a trampoline,” stated the Russian Deputy Prime Minister at the time. America depends on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from the ISS due to NASA budget cuts.
Russia hopes to renew its own lunar program, beginning with unmanned crafts orbiting the moon and culminating in manned landings by 2030.
Original source: dailydot.com
Good! glad one country actually cares about space, and won’t put up with America.
Oh, it’s about space. Thank you for educating me. I thought it was about politics. You’re really smart. Thanks again.
This is wrong, Russia forget that in the most difficult moments THEY ARE THE ONE WHO LITERALLY SAVE UNITED-STATES. This takes away their usual outstanding glory over UnitedStates. Even Hollywood and Intelligent Encyclopedias recognize that.
You do realise Russians don’t like America right?
Oh how wrong you are, they’re like 2 peas in a pod.
WW11, America saved Russia when they very easily could have destroyed the already crippled nation.
What? WW11? America saved Russia? In WWII the Russians were steam rolling the Germans after the little winter fuck up (German forces froze and starved) and there were no Americans to be seen on that front. Russians took Berlin (the capital city of Germany) and if I remember correctly the Americans had yet to push that far. That’s like saying you saved a man from a heart attack by giving him the Heimlich maneuver…
Russia would not have survived if mot for the US. We gave them all kinds of war materials, food, trucks, gas, diesel etc. The ONLY reason they invaded Berlin first is because the American and British generals felt sorry for them after the had lost over 1 million lives due to inept leadership. GO AND GOOGLE IT
Really you should do some googling yourself considering there would not be a United States without Russia helping during our revolt against the British Empire in 1776.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire%E2%80%93United_States_relations
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Why save a dog that consistently bites your hand?
Pretty sure I heard somewhere that US is spending alot already not to dink around in the atmosphere but working on, oh idk… spacecrafts that go farther than the moon or orbit the planet, boring stuff I know…
Russians are idiots and Americans are jackasses that about sums it up
then it is good that SpaceX will be redy to send up astronauts to the ISS by 2017 that is in 2 yeras 🙂
Another anon you sound like a real winner. Where are you from?
Half the world is starving who gives a fuck about how these two super powers jack each other off in space what a bunch of cock heads.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Allways thought it was a beautiful thing that ISS ,space was”above” politics, sad to see its not The facto.
I would like to follow you up,and be a firm supporter of your
activities springing from all sort of human rights violations.