Russia Moves to Support ISS through 2024, Create New Space Station
Source: Planetary Society
The future of the International Space Station is a little clearer this week, following a statement from Russia supporting an extension of the orbiting complex through 2024. The move aligns the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, with NASA—which already said it would continue station operations through the same period.
Following a meeting of the Roscosmos Scientific and Technical Council, or NTS, a statement was released describing a plan to add new modules to the ISS but then remove them around 2024 to create a new Russian space station.
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Until now, NASA was the only agency that had signaled it would keep the station operating beyond 2020. A decision on continued involvement from Europe, Japan and Canada may not come until next year.
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The Roscosmos statement also said the Russians would aim for crewed moon landings around 2030, but no further details were given.
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Read more: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20250226-russia-iss-2024.html
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bananas
To be fair - Russia have had ambitions for a new, Russian space station, since before MIR was to expensive to operate - and had to be left burning to small pieces over the pacific ocean.... But they don't had the money and resources to do it alone - and the ISS Space Station program, was using a lot of russian technology to build its interface - and to learn how to operate a large space station - as Russia did had some experience in the field... And MIR was a space station who had been operated for more than a decade more than planned - when the pieces was shoot out in space in the 1986-89 time frame - and then USSR was no more - and in fact, the men who was on board the MIR was stuck there for almost a year before they was able to get down, to a smaller, less powerfully nation than they left in 1989....
The russian space program have always been a site of great pride for russians - with full right if you ask me - as russians have doing great things with their space program - specially in the scientific meaning, like make sure humans is able to survive in a hostile environment like space - as we are not by any means native to space... They have also had their share of tragic endings - but the triumphs, going all back to Sputnik I who in 1958 scared half the planet with the message of Soviet experience in making a new satellite to the earth - even if it was just a tiny sphere - who was able to air the international on a large public - it was indeed a feat the US had to counter somehow.. And then Juri Gagarin was the first man in space, beating the US by almost 3 mounts - and even had the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova. It should take years for the first american woman to finally got to the stars - or at least into orbit.
It is interesting to se if it materialize into something solid - I have always been facsimiled by space - and sadly had plans for being the first Norwegian astronaut into space when I was in first grade - oh I se how that materialized itself into reality 
Oh well - at least I can dream about it...
Diclotican
Face it, Bush screwed up the US reputation in all matters, including space.
Europe is looking to join China's manned space program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_for_Space_Exploration
Seems like they do a lot up there http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/experiments_by_name.html
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