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End of an era for the International Space Station as Russia looks east – Financial Times

Moscow’s departure brings two decades of rare co-operation with West to a close

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The International Space Station, the largest ever global collaboration in science and engineering, has been a cosmopolitan meeting point for astronauts for two decades.
This month alone a Russian Soyuz rocket lofted a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the orbiting laboratory 420km above the Earth’s surface on April 9. Eight days later another Soyuz rocket carried a different American-Russian trio back to Earth — and on Friday a US SpaceX craft took two more Americans, a Japanese and a Frenchman…

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