The Biden Administration is extending the planned occupation and use of the International Space Station (ISS) to 2030, instead of the previous retirement date of 2024, and the extension includes the key partnership of the ISS’s history, that with Russia. This is despite the fact that Roscosmos head Dmitri Rogozin had said Russia would withdraw from the station in 2025 when NASA did under its previous plan.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today a commitment to extend (ISS) operations through 2030, “and to work with our international partners in Europe (ESA, European Space Agency), Japan (JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Canada (CSA, Canadian Space Agency), and Russia (State Space Corporation Roscosmos) to enable continuation of the groundbreaking research being conducted in this unique orbiting laboratory through the rest of this decade.
