(Morning News) The new director of the Russian Federal Astronaut (Roscosmos) told President Putin on Tuesday (July 26) that Russia had decided to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024.
Yury Borisov, who was appointed as the director of the Russian Federal Astronautics Bureau in mid -July, told Putin: "Of course, we will fulfill all their obligations to our partners, but it has decided to be after 2024 after 2024Exit this (international space) station. "Borisov told Putin that by 2024, Russia will start a Russian rail station. He calls this the main" priority "of the space plan.Putin replied in a comment published by the Kremlin: "Very good."
The International Space Station has been operating on the track since 1998, and Russia and the United States have been working side by side here.Until now, space exploration is a cooperation between Russia and the United States and allies. It has not been destroyed by the tension between Ukraine and other places.
Borisov said that the aerospace industry is in a "difficult situation."He said he would seek "improve the standard and provide necessary spatial services for the Russian economy", including navigation, communication and data transmission.Former Deputy Prime Minister Borisov, a military background, replaced Dmitry Rogozin and became the director of the Russian Federal Astronautics Bureau.
Robyn Gatens, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), told Reuters that Russia did not convey to the National Aerospace Administration's willingness to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024.She said at a conference at an international space station in Washington: "There is no formal news yet. We have just seen it. We haven't got any official news."
