Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said in a television interview on CNN that “we are pleased that NASA looks at us as a groom trying to deceive him, but it does not seem like this.”
In response to the possibility of Russia’s willingness to refuse to cooperate with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and establish a partnership with China to establish a scientific lunar station, Rogozin joked: “NASA views the state institution as a bride trying to deceive a groom in order to Another groom.
For his part, he indicated that in light of the imposition of US sanctions on a number of “Roscosmos” organizations participating in the International Space Station project, the cooperation with the United States in the framework of this project, and this partnership between the two agencies is inseparable.
It is noteworthy that the Russian space agency, “Roskosmos”, announced last April that it was ready to continue cooperation with the United States in the space field, but it would not participate in the construction of the lunar station.
It is reported that, in early June, the CEO of “Roskosmos” had a telephone conversation with the head of “NASA”, Bill Nelson, and explained to him that the matter was related to the non-acceptance of the sanctions imposed by the US side on the research center “TsNIIMash”, which It includes the Space Mission Control Center and the State Aerospace Research and Production Center, as well as the Soyuz-2 space rocket manufacturer.
In late August, Rogozin said in an interview with Radio “Echo of Moscow”: “The issue of the continuation of Russia’s partnership in the International Space Station project will be decided in the coming months.”