
A retired ISS commander weighs in on Russia's decision to leave
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Do You Think Russia Will Leave the Space Station?
The space station was designed specifically to be interdependent on each ys components. So how will russia's departure effect operations? You think we you just know that the one requirement of the space station is to have the russian rockets. I would love to continue co operating with the russians, but they need to leave ukraine and pay for the damage they've done in ukraine. The chinese are going to be the boss in that partnership. It's been an equal marriage. And i don't think that's good. Look, we don't allow the chinese on the space station because of their egregious human rights records. We're doing right now by actively
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