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23 April 2021, 02:04 pm Russia is planning to leave NASA's 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. Russia's Decision to Leave the International Space Station Program Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov had recently expressed the country's intentions to leave the ISS program in 2025 but defended that...

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 mathematician who had a vital role in early human space flight missions. This launch is Nanoracks’ ninth ...

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, that's not just countries like it was when we were dealing with apollo 11, but now it's 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 like shuttling people and things to the space station and governments and organizations like nasa ...

Engineering capabilities. it doesn't 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 i'm sure they'll be able to figure this out pretty quickly but it's a big setback for the international space station program for sure. >> perhaps for spacex as well. talking to cnn's rachel crane over ...

Moon. and the united states cannot even put our own astronauts at our own $100 billion space station. >> reporter: that's because, for now, with the space station program on ice, nasa's primary means for sending astronauts into space is by way of hitching a ride on russian-led space flights. aldrin says it's 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 tensions between russia and the u.s., do you see further consequences for the space program, given the ...