Russia will leave the International Space Station in 2025, marking the end of one of the few successful areas of cooperation with the West. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said leaving the ISS behind would allow Moscow to launch its own station by 2030. “We are starting negotiations with our NASA partners, we are formalizing them now.” said Wednesday, according to the Financial Times. “It doesn’t mean the station will be scrapped and dumped into the ocean immediately after 2025. We will simply hand over responsibility for our segment to partners.” The United States and Russia jointly launched the ISS in 1998 after four decades of fighting for supremacy in space. Space agencies in Europe, Japan and Canada have provided new modules and astronauts to the station. Earlier this year, Russia and China signed an agreement to jointly build a base on or orbiting the moon.
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