Russia can continue to use the ISS after 2020 – Russian Dialogue

space industry does not stop the creation of new programs and facilities for the ISS.

«Work on the creation of modules for the ISS conducted
 according to the contract, “- said the director of information policy” of the United
 Rocket and Space Corporation “Igor Burenkov.

Roscosmos said that the work
 indeed underway, but the decision on their continuation will be made in the coming
 time. Unnamed source in the Federal Space Agency said such confusion that before
 the end is not known whether Russia to abandon the ISS.

«If we look at the relevant section
 Federal Space Program, we can see that the customer under the ISS project
 is the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our American partners have said many times,
 they want to continue the activities of the ISS beyond 2020. When they
 heard from our leaders that Russia wants to shut down the project in 2020,
 they stepped up their efforts with scientists began to cover their interesting offers
 on papers that go beyond 2020. In 2015, the planned annual
 Expedition American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut to the ISS. She only
 prepared, and the Americans have already offered to the Institute of Biomedical Problems
 Russian Academy of Sciences (IBMP) to hold another joint experiment on the annual flight.
 American partners want that our scientists have told us, the ISS needs after
 2020, it is not necessary to heat. In turn Roskosmos also not too
 interested to work on the ISS were discontinued right now: on
 work stations within the PCF for 2006-2015 allocated 186.6 billion rubles.
 If we stop the development of the new station modules, significant
 means in fact be charged, in some enterprises have massively to dismiss
 people, “- said the source.

« If we look at the relevant section
 Federal Space Program, we can see that the customer under the ISS project
 is the Russian Academy of Sciences “, – he added.

Many scientists think that Russia did
 and will continue to use the ISS as Scientific Director of the Institute of Space
 policy Ivan Moiseev said: “It’s one thing just to say that we of the project
 leave, and the other – in fact, stop all work. Then once it is necessary
 decide what to do with the people who are engaged in this project. The project for the development of
 Moon, which a lot of talk lately, as there only
 paper and not the fact that it would be approved. In this situation, it is logical that work
 ISS continues ».

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