INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
chief of state space agency Roscosmos said Tuesday."I think that by that time we will start putting together a Russian orbital station,"
Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the space program the main "priority.""Of
course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made," Borisov
of all, to provide the Russian economy with the necessary space services," pointing to navigation, communication and data transmission,
announced it was resuming flights to the ISS with Russia.A senior NASA official on Tuesday said the United States hasn't received "any
official word" from Russia on its plans to quit the ISS."We haven't received any official word from the partner as to the news today," Robyn
Gatens, director of the ISS for NASA, said during a conference on the outpost.Asked whether she wanted the United States -Russia space
Ukraine, which sparked several rounds of unprecedented Western sanctions against Moscow.In April, former Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin
the partners at the International Space Station and other projects is possible only with full and unconditional removal of illegal
infrastructure.AFP contributed reporting.
