Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat – Yahoo News Australia

Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International Space Station (ISS).
The proposed new station, called the Gateway, “is too US-centric, so to speak,” Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said, adding Russia was “likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale.”
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