ISS could ‘fall apart’ by 2030 – Russia

Russian space agency Roscosmos’s Director-General Dmitry Rogozin (pictured) said at a meeting with lawmakers from the Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday that the International Space Station (ISS) could “fall apart” by 2030 without major investments into repairs.

However, strong investments could be pointless while “the United States, the British and Europeans behave in this way,” he noted, seemingly referring to sanctions against Russia by the West.

“So far we have government permission to work on the ISS until 2024. The United States has decided to work there until 2030,” he revealed, adding that, when the station was launched in 1998, it was meant to remain operable for 15 years.