Can Nasa persuade Russia to back International Space Station plans?
by Stuart Clark from on (#5TRJ0)
Biden wants to extend the operation of the ISS to 2030 before replacing it - will Russia approve?
The deadline for the decommissioning of the International Space Station (ISS) is worryingly close, and there is a danger that the commercial replacements the US was hoping for will not be ready to launch in time.
With that in mind, on New Year's Eve, Nasa announced that the Biden-Harris administration wanted to extend the operation of the ISS by six years to 2030.
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