The longstanding collaboration between the United States and Russia in operating the International Space Station (ISS) appears to be on solid footing even as tensions between the two countries build over the Ukraine crisis.
Some seven weeks after the Biden administration pledged its commitment to keeping ISS operational through 2030, NASA is still in talks with Roscosmos, its Russian counterpart, on a new "crew exchange" deal. Under such an agreement, the two former space rivals would routinely share flights to the station on each other's spacecrafts, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
"Ongoing station operations continue, including work to fly crew to the orbital outpost and return them safely to Earth," NASA spokesman Dan Huot said in an email to Reuters. Roscosmos did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. But U.S.-Russian ties have frayed since Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimea region from Ukraine, prompting Congress to ban new government contracts with U.S. companies using Russian rocket engineers for national security launches after 2022, according to the website SpacePolicyOnline.com.
The new agreement would pave the way for more NASA crew to fly aboard Soyuz in exchange for Russian cosmonauts sharing rides with U.S. astronauts on SpaceX flights, all free of charge. In anticipation of such a deal, three Russian cosmonauts are already training at NASA's Johnson Space Center near Houston, NASA said.
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