Despite tensions, sanctions and recriminations between the United States and Russia, two American astronauts will join a Russian cosmonaut blasting off Wednesday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station.
Even when things get nasty between the two countries, experts say the space program rarely suffers.
The United States has depended entirely on Russia to deliver astronauts to the ISS since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
After President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014 for annexing Crimea, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin suggested U.S. astronauts could get to the International Space Station by trampoline.
But the launches continued.
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Source: Voice of America
