Russia has made a made a clear decision on Tuesday, that it would withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow's space agency has put forward its own decision in front of the President Vladimir Putin. This decision was signaling towards the end of a joint project that was served as a key image of Post-Cold War cooperation with Washington.

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Russia’s decision signaling towards the end of a joint project with Washington
Borisov claimed the space industry to be in 'difficult situation'
As per Russia, working with Chinese space program is better than with NASA

The move came by as Moscow and the West had a clash over the Kremlin's war that broke out in Ukraine. This has made people to cast new doubt over the future of global collaboration in space. Russia has been intimating that it could see a better future if it would have a cooperative effort with the Chinese space program rather than with NASA, who has been its main partner from last 25 years.

Russia and the US have been working side by side on ISS that was in orbit since 1998.

According to Yury Borisov, who was appointed as Roscosmos chief in mid-July told Putin that 'Of course, we would fulfill all our obligations to our partner however the choice to leave this station after 2024 has been created.' He added that 'I assume that by this point we would start putting together the Russian orbital station,' by calling it the space programme's main 'priority.'

In response to Kremlin's released comment Putin has replied as 'Good' for such comments.

Well, till now space exploration was considered to be one of the few areas where cooperation between Russia and US along with its allies had not been destroyed by tensions over Ukraine and somewhere else.

As per Borisov it could be claimed that the space industry was in 'difficult situation.' He even mentioned that he would look for the ways 'to raise the bar, and first of all, to provide the Russian economy with the mandatory space services, ' In terms of navigation, communication, and data transmission, among different things.

Though, from sending the first man into space in 1961 then by launching the first satellite four years earlier are among key accomplishments of the Soviet space programme. Well, it remains as a major source of national pride in Russia.

But according to the experts the Russian space agency remains within the shadow of its former self. Along with it, in recent years it had suffered a series of setbacks such as with corruption scandals and the loss of variety of satellites and different other spacecraft.

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