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09.08 / 13:13
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Russia set to abandon the International Space Station, leave NASA to fly solo
Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2024, the new chief of Moscow's space agency Roscosmos said. This will leave NASA alone to fly the ISS. The announcement has been made after the West isolated Russia from trade and finance over the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. The tensions between the Russia and the West raged after Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions were slapped against it. The Russian space agency Roscosmos had been threatening to pull out of the ISS for months on concerns over Western sanctions that would destroy cooperation with NASA aboard the orbital lab.