Russia will leave the International Space Station "after 2024
Russia will leave the International Space Station "after 2024" International Space Station An image of the International Space Station (ISS) on May 23, 2010 as seen from the departing space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-132 mission Posted in: 07/27/2022 - 09:58 Last updated: 07/27/2022 - Moscow (AFP) - Russia announced Tuesday that it will leave the International Space Station "after 2024", raising questions about the survival of this manned laboratory in orbit, amid Russian-Western tensions over the Russian attack on Ukraine. The assembly of the International Space Station, which is a model for international cooperation between Europe, Japan, the United States and Russia, began in 1998. It was scheduled to be out of service in 2024, but the US space agency (NASA) estimated that it could operate until 2030. Russia plays a key role in keeping the station in orbit, but some of its spacecraft are a...