The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Mace, a victim of rape as a teenager, has been a moderate voice in the Republican Party on the issue of abortion, urging her colleagues in the GOP to come to a consensus on a middleground on abortion policies. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. PALCA: So there's two years or so to figure out what to do.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. So it's not an immediate, abrupt departure. And they're going to go through this process working with partners. MARIEL BOROWITZ: In some ways, it's less dramatic than it sounds, you know? They're saying they're going to leave, but they're going to leave in 2024. Mariel Borowitz is at the Sam Nunn Center for International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. PALCA: But it's not as if the Russians are saying they're leaving tomorrow. supplied the solar panels that provide power for the station.įORCZYK: So the two sections of the ISS are so interconnected and rely on each other that it is very, very difficult to imagine a future where ISS can operate without the partners working together. Its modules provide the propulsion that keeps the station in the correct orbit. Russia has provided key parts for the space station. PALCA: That's Laura Forczyk, a space consultant with the firm Astralytical.

But it does seem to be a stronger announcement than we've seen before. LAURA FORCZYK: So this is not a new development. For its part, Russia has threatened on several occasions to end its participation in the ISS, as the space station is known. Recently, NASA took the unusual step of rebuking Russia for using the International Space Station for political purposes after cosmonauts unfurled a flag that appeared to support the invasion. JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Ever since the United States imposed sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, relations between the two space agencies have been a bit frosty. The head of its space agency says it'll leave NASA's International Space Station in 2024. partnership that's lasted more than 20 years.

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