The International Space Station represents a U.S. partnership yet unaffected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The NASA and Russian Roscosmos"teams are still talking together, we're still doing training together, we're still working together," Kathy Lueders, the top NASA official on human spaceflight, said on Monday.
Currently, there are seven people on board the ISS: five astronauts — four American and one German — and two Russian cosmonauts. NASA's top official on human spaceflight addressed the agency's International Space Station partnership on Monday amid growing global tensions, saying the orbiting research laboratory is yet unaffected by"We are not getting any indications at a working level that our [Russian] counterparts are not committed to ongoing operations," NASA Associate Administrator Kathy Lueders said during a news conference on Monday.
The NASA and Russian Roscosmos"teams are still talking together, we're still doing training together, we're still working together," Lueders added. Currently, there are seven people on board the ISS: five astronauts — four American and one German — and two Russian cosmonauts. Lueders spoke during a news conference hosted byThe ISS is physically divided into two sections: the United States Orbital Segment and the Russian Orbital Segment. The U.S.
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