RT
The US space agency has no intention of cutting cooperation with Russia in manned expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS), Sean Fuller, a senior NASA official, has said. Being able to use each other’s spacecraft makes exploration safer for everyone, according to Fuller.
TASS caught up with the veteran space official, who previously headed NASA’s Human Space Flight Program office in Moscow, on the sidelines of this week’s 74th International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan. Fuller said he sees “no reason” for astronauts to stop using Russian Soyuz spaceships.
NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have an arrangement that allows them to use each other’s capsules. For almost a decade after retiring the Space Shuttle program, the US relied solely on Russian Soyuz flights to rotate ISS crews.
After 2020, when piloted Crew Dragon craft were cleared for manned missions, the two parties returned to a ride-sharing scheme. It was last renewed in July 2022, despite relations between Moscow and Washington having soured over the Ukraine conflict.
Fuller stressed that US-Russian cooperation could become crucial if the ISS were to encounter an emergency requiring swift evacuation. Expedition members can use whichever spacecraft is docked to return home, he explained.
The SpaseX Endurance capsule is currently in orbit, having delivered four passengers, including Russia’s Konstantin Borisov, to the station in late August. It is the third mission for the reusable capsule.
The Soyuz MS-23 was the latest spacecraft to bring back to Earth ISS crew members, including astronaut Loral O’Hara. It landed in late September.
Fuller currently works as NASA’s International Partner Manager for the Gateway Program, the project to build a space station orbiting the Moon to facilitate further missions beyond the immediate neighborhood of the Earth.
Via https://www.rt.com/news/584165-nasa-roscosmos-ride-sharing/
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Let me get this straight, America claims to have put men on the moon, but because its space shuttle kept blowing up, it gave up on sending more folks up via its space shuttle program. And despite the issues America has with Russia vs. Ukraine, America has no choice but to use Russia’s spacecrafts to send Americans to the ISS? This leads me to believe that the U.S. should leave Russia the hell alone since it would appear that Russia is more ready for a war with the U.S. than the U.S. is ready for a war with Russia.
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Shelby, it’s still my belief that all the current US wars (in Ukraine, Haiti, Eritrea, Syria and half dozen other places) are merely a distraction to keep Americans from noticing how rapidly the US economy is collapsing.
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Well, Dr. Bramhall, we are noticing. At this point, even a blind, deaf mute that’s been planted is sitting up taking notice. It’s unholy hell over here!!!
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The US and Russia need to learn to get along. I’m reminded of George Orwell’s “1984”, a prophetic novel published around 1950, of three great powers at perpetual war, with shifting alliances of two against the third.
In real life, George Orwell (Eric Blair) was a prep-school student of Aldous Huxley, who wrote “Brave New World”, around 1930.
Later, Huxley wrote a comparison of the philosophies espoused by each. Huxley claimed Orwell used the power of fear to control the populace in “1984”, but he had used the incentive of pleasure in his equally dystopic novel.
In both cases, the totalitarian state “won” in that individuals were controlled by outside forces.
My thoughts on reading these classics were that neither gave sufficient weight to the power of the individual to negotiate human obstacles to survive and find fulfillment outside the human mind construct.
If I have a point to make, it is that we are all together at this point in time but have the advantage of riding the wave in infinitely creative ways, to find inner resources to deal with challenges as they arise.
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The Canadian historian Matthew Ehret has a lot to say about both Orwell and Huxley and their links to the Tavistock Institute (the British equivalent of the US Foreign Relations Council) and British intelligence.
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