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April 21, 20217:36 PM UTC

ScienceRussia plans to launch own space station after quitting ISS

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The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56
crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4,
2018.NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56
crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4,
2018.NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim
of launching it into orbit by 2030 if President Vladimir Putin gives
the go-ahead, the head of its Roscosmos space agency said on
Wednesday.

The project would mark a new chapter for Russian space exploration
and an end to more than two decades of close cooperation with the
United States aboard the ageing International Space Station (ISS).

"If in 2030, in accordance with our plans, we can put it into orbit,
it will be a colossal breakthrough," Interfax news agency quoted
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin as saying. "The will is there to take
a new step in world manned space exploration."

Russian cosmonauts have worked with counterparts from the United
States and 16 other countries about the ISS since 1998 - one of the
closest fields of cooperation between Moscow and Washington, whose
relations are currently in deep crisis over human rights,
cyberattacks and a range of other issues.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian TV at the weekend
that Moscow would give notice to its partners that it would leave the
ISS project from 2025.

Rogozin said the Russian station, unlike the ISS, would most likely
not be permanently crewed because its orbit path would expose it to
higher radiation.

But cosmonauts would visit it and it would also use artificial
intelligence and robots.

He said Russia was ready to consider allowing foreign crews to visit,
"but the station must be national... If you want to do well, do it
yourself."

Interfax quoted an unnamed source as saying that Russia planned to
spend up to $6 billion to get the project launched.

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