OTTAWA: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Tuesday (Apr 25) condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but said in Ottawa that he expected Russians and Americans to work together on the International Space Station (ISS) until it is decommissioned. American-Russian space cooperation wa
OTTAWA: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Tuesday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but said in Ottawa that he expected Russians and Americans to work together on the International Space Station until it is decommissioned.Yuri Borisov, the director-general of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA by announcing in July 2022 that Moscow intended to withdraw from the space station partnership"after 2024".
"We are completely at odds with President Putin's aggression" that is"slaughtering people and invading an autonomous sovereign country", Nelson told Reuters in an interview in Ottawa.
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