Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could sink NASA’s plan to extend the operating life of the International Space Station
Meanwhile, two NASA astronauts are wrapping up training with Roscosmos, three Russian cosmonauts are training with NASA, and up to five NASA astronauts are scheduled to begin training in Russia this month.
The Biden administration announced in December that it wants to extend the station until 2030 when a series of private space stations should come online. ButNASA pledged “to work with our international partners in EuropeJapan, Canada, and Russia to enable continuation of the groundbreaking research being conducted in this unique orbiting laboratory through the rest of this decade.”to sever the partnership. “Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS?” he asked.
It also insisted in a statement that new economic sanctions imposed on Russia for its assault on Ukraine “will continue to allow U.S.-Russia civil space cooperation” and that “no changes are planned to the agency’s support for ongoing in orbit and ground station operations.”The U.S. and its other partners could manage without Russia but it might prove so complicated and costly that it’s not worth doing, according to multiple experts on space station operations.
NASA is also planning that the Boeing Starliner spacecraft can perform the mission. But it is at least two years behind schedule and has yet to make its first successful flight to the station. “Roscosmos’ Multipurpose Laboratory Module , added in July 2021, is a considerable enhancement that increases utilization on the Russian Segment for the next decade,” NASA said in its recently updated ISS Transition Plan.
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