Russia says it is pulling out of International Space Station from 2024
Russia said on Tuesday that it would end its role in the International Space Station from 2024.Russia hinted it may quit after it invaded Ukraine, and is touting a plan to build its own station.Russia said on Tuesday it will pull out of the International Space Station , ending decades of cooperation with the US and other spacefaring nations.the Russian state news outlet TASS reported.
It remarks reported by TASS, the head of Russia's Roscosmos agency, Yuri Borisov, said that Russia would fulfil its existing commitments but would do no more. The agency had hinted that it may pull out of the ISS earlier this year as relations between Russia and the West tanked in the wake Putin's invasion of Ukraine.Russia will focus its efforts on building its own space station, which it wants to start building in 2024, Borisov said.
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