Growing tensions with Moscow have not stopped Washington from approving the expansion of the ISS mission

 

 The administration of US President Joe Biden has approved plans to extend the operation of the International Space Station until 2030, despite growing political tensions with Russia, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph.

Thanks to an agreement signed in 1998, the station ensured international cooperation in space for two decades, largely unaffected by political issues on Earth.

 "The International Space Station is a beacon of peaceful international scientific cooperation and has brought tremendous scientific, educational and technological progress for the benefit of mankind for more than 20 years," Nelson said.

In early September 2021, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin was more succinct in an interview with the American television channel CNN. "This is a family, divorce at the station is impossible," said the director general of the Russian State Space Corporation.

 "A lot of money has been invested in the space station. They do not want to throw away the billions of dollars they have already invested. "The space station needs to be replaced, but where will the money come from, as well as the Artemis program to send astronauts to the moon by 2025," said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center.