The director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, made a series of inflammatory posts on Twitter on Saturday (2) suggesting that Russia may end cooperation on the International Space Station (ISS) due to international sanctions on the country’s capital, Moscow.
“I believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners on the International Space Station and other joint projects is only possible after the total and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions,” Rogozin said in posts on his verified Twitter account.
Rogozin warned that Roscosmos will prepare “concrete proposals to our country’s leadership” on the possibility of ending cooperation in the ISS with the space agencies of the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan.
Some background: The head of Russia’s space agency has a reputation for speaking out on social media, commenting on geopolitical issues and directing criticism at the US.
NASA maintains that it has a close working relationship with Roscosmos that is unaffected by the political situation on Earth and the war in Ukraine.
Rogozin previously posted a heavily edited CGI video that appeared to pose the threat that Russian cosmonauts would abandon NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei in space. Vande Hei, who departed for the ISS in April 2021, returned to Earth on March 30, along with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.
Veteran ex-astronaut Scott Kelly recently told CNN that it would give up its Twitter war with Rogozin, following a warning from a NASA official that such attacks are “harmful” to the ISS mission.
Since November 2000, the ISS has functioned as an orbiting laboratory 420 kilometers above our planet, as well as a home for teams of continuously rotating astronauts and cosmonauts. It was the site of several firsts as astronauts successfully sequenced DNA and celebrated cultures grown in space.
Source: CNN Brasil
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