OTTAWA—NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Tuesday said in Ottawa that he expected Russians and Americans to work together on the International Space Station (ISS) until it is decommissioned.
American-Russian space cooperation was put in doubt after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Yuri Borisov, the director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA by announcing in July 2022 that Moscow intended to withdraw from the space station partnership “after 2024.” A day later NASA said Roscosmos wanted to continue the partnership.
Nelson, who was in Ottawa to help showcase the Artemis II space mission including a Canadian astronaut, underscored the history of U.S. and Soviet collaboration in space during the Cold War, and said he expects it to continue amid the war in Ukraine….