U.S. To Resume International Space Station Flights With Russia

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
over the invasion of Ukraine."To ensure continued safe operations of the International Space Station, protect the lives of astronauts and
ensure continuous U.S
presence in space, NASA will resume integrated crews on U.S
crew spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz," U.S
space agency NASA said in a statement.NASA said that astronaut Frank Rubio would fly with two Russian cosmonauts on a Soyuz rocket scheduled
to launch on Sept
firebrand nationalist and ardent backer of the Ukraine invasion who once quipped that U.S
astronauts should get to the space station on trampolines rather than Russian rockets.NASA said that the International Space Station was
Canada."The station was designed to be interdependent and relies on contributions from each space agency to function
No one agency has the capability to function independent of the others," it said.