Russia will leave the International Space Station in 2025, which is the end of one of its few successful areas of cooperation with the West. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said the ISS would be left behind to launch its own station in Moscow by 2030. “We are starting negotiations with our NASA partners, we are formalizing it now,” he said on Wednesday. According to the Financial Times. “This does not mean that the station will be scrapped immediately after 2025 and dumped into the ocean. We will simply hand over the responsibility for our segment to the partners.” The US and Russia jointly launched the ISS in 1998 after four decades of fighting 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 the moon.
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