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23 April 2021, 02:04 pm Russia is planning to leave NASAs International Space Station (ISS) and has begun building its own amid reports of renewed tensions between the eastern country and the United States. The news comes after Moscow expressed intentions to leave the ISS program and told Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos) to build an equivalent space station. Russias Decision to Leave the International Space Station Program Russias Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov h...

Nanoracks launches two CubeSats on NG-15 Cygnus 02/23/2021 2 Minutes Read The NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station (ISS), carrying two CubeSats in the Nanoracks External Cygnus Deployer (E-NRCSD). The Cygnus arrived at the ISS after launching from Wallops Flight Facility Pad 0A on February 22, 2021 at 17:36 UTC. In celebration of Black History Month, the NG-15 Cygnus has been named in honor of Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathema...

15 nations operating the iss, of course, the united states of america is the lead on it, but we want to take that coalition and we want to go all the way to the moon and, in fact, even grow it from there. >> he is talking about the coalition, thats not just countries like it was when we were dealing with apollo 11, but now its governments and private enterprise. tell me how you look at that. have we done something smart by saying, hey, there are some things that private enterprise can take over ...

Engineering capabilities. it doesnt take much of a weak link to cause what you saw just there. incredible dynamic forces a lot of speed, and a lot of pressure on the structure itself. and there will be plenty of information on the ground right now indicating what the possible failures might be. a rocket has a huge amount of telemetry, data coming down to the ground as it rises to orbit. and so im sure theyll be able to figure this out pretty quickly but its a big setback for the international sp...

Moon. and the united states cannot even put our own astronauts at our own $100 billion space station. >> reporter: thats because, for now, with the space station program on ice, nasas primary means for sending astronauts into space is by way of hitching a ride on russian-led space flights. aldrin says its short-sighted and does nothing to foster leadership. he says faulty goal setting and insufficient funds have forced nasa off a winning path. >> given the current events happening and the tensio...

But they did not kill the soyuz. so for $71 million per seat, the russians agree to fly american astronauts, as well as cargo, back and forth to the international space station. $71 million a seat. russia is the only country in the world that maintains that capacity right now to transport stuff in and out of space. and we pay russia to use that capacity which only they have. except maybe now not for long. what happened today in florida is something else that ronald reagan talked about in that st...

Belt and continue to run these successful supply missions up to the space station. jon: well, eventually this thing is supposed to fly our astronauts, right? >> right. and the fact that they withstood an engine failure is a good thing. youve got to have the ability to continue on with a mission. on the other hand, rocket science is hard, and this is only the fourth launch of the falcon 9, spaceand should use this as a learning opportunity to strengthen the design of their vehicle. jon: well, its...

With the russians right now, how do you think the international community will embrace space travel going forward? >> depends on the country, we have partners in europe, japanese partner, canadians, and russians all partners with the international space station, i think the big programs, if were going to go on one day and go back to the moon or mars with humans, well do that probably as an international effort. were the leading partner with the space station program. weve had the space station u...

Parts. military and scientific. this is also true within the manned space station program. while one, four, and six are all involved in scientific research with some military applications, two, three, and five are clearly part of the military program. >> the military program. see, the spooky music makes it all so much more believable! the cia also put in movie form for president reagan what was going on in afghanistan in the 1980s. you can roll that one. this is great. >> moscow faces some formi...

Through a few years later, and then ultimately when okeefe became nasa administrator in 2001, it was at the same time period that ted stevens was, in fact, the chairman of a very powerful committee that basically controlled a lot of the purse strings at the space agency. and stevens was a big supporter of the space agency. so as one person that told me a little bit ago -- he said bottom line was, if stevens had the money that okeefe needed at the space station. now, sean okeefe was also brought ...