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 Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said leaving the ISS will allow Moscow to launch its own station by 2030. “We are starting negotiations with our NASA partners, we are now formalizing them,” he said Wednesday. according to the Financial times. “It does not mean that the station will be demolished and dumped into the ocean after 2025. We simply hand over responsibility for our segment to the partners.” The US and Russia jointly launched the ISS in 1998 after four decades of struggle for supremacy in space. The space agencies of Europe, Japan and Canada have since provided new modules and astronauts for the station. Earlier this year, Russia and China signed an agreement to jointly build a base on or in orbit around the moon.
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