The United States has initiated prolongation of the International Space Station’s service life till 2028-2030 and corresponding work is already in progress, Russian cosmonaut, deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems under the Russian Academy of Sciences, Oleg Kotov, told TASS in an interview."No, they [NASA] do not wish to dump it [the ISS] and they have never wished to do that. They have already initiated prolongation of the station’s operation till 2028-2030 and this work is already in progress. There are two tasks on the agenda - to persuade the government to provide funds for financing the operation of the ISS and to carry out technical scrutiny into whether it is safe to prolong the station’s life cycle," Kotov said.
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It is hard to believe the above when NASA will have such tremendous budget pressures in the 2020s with the lunar gateway, lunar landings and building the mars ship.
Then again, it looks like Congress, both the House and Senate, want to extend the ISS.
Speaking of the Gateway Station, Russia also stated they may abandon the project because NASA is not treating them as a peer rather than a secondary partner. Given Russia's lack of recent experience past LEO for any mission and no experience for human spaceflight, Russia's inability to finish its portion of the ISS, and the current geopolitical climate, I'm surprised Russia thinks it will participate at all: NASA hasn't listed the Russians as participating in the station construction at least as of the last update.
Russia is claiming they may build their own gateway station, but...yeah. Just like they will build their own LEO station in 2020. um. yeah. we'll see.
Now they are backtracking their claim they will not participate in the Gateway Station. It sounds like they don't want this to be an American project with international participation as junior partners, but rather to have it be an international project with American participation.
It is hard to believe the above when NASA will have such tremendous budget pressures in the 2020s with the lunar gateway, lunar landings and building the mars ship.
Then again, it looks like Congress, both the House and Senate, want to extend the ISS.
Speaking of the Gateway Station, Russia also stated they may abandon the project because NASA is not treating them as a peer rather than a secondary partner. Given Russia's lack of recent experience past LEO for any mission and no experience for human spaceflight, Russia's inability to finish its portion of the ISS, and the current geopolitical climate, I'm surprised Russia thinks it will participate at all: NASA hasn't listed the Russians as participating in the station construction at least as of the last update.
Russia is claiming they may build their own gateway station, but...yeah. Just like they will build their own LEO station in 2020. um. yeah. we'll see.
Now they are backtracking their claim they will not participate in the Gateway Station. It sounds like they don't want this to be an American project with international participation as junior partners, but rather to have it be an international project with American participation.
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