{"id":142730,"date":"2022-07-24T01:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-to-share-space-station-flights"},"modified":"2022-07-24T01:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T06:24:45","slug":"nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-to-share-space-station-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-to-share-space-station-flights","title":{"rendered":"NASA, Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-to-share-space-station-flights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>July 15 (Reuters) \u2014 NASA and Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos have signed a long-sought agreement to integrate flights to the International Space Station, allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S.-made spacecraft in exchange for American astronauts being able to ride on Russia\u2019s Soyuz, the agencies said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement is in the interests of Russia and the United States and will promote the development of cooperation within the framework of the ISS program,\u201d Roscosmos said in a statement, adding it will facilitate the \u201cexploration of outer space for peaceful purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA and Roscosmos, the two-decade-old space station\u2019s core partners, have sought for years to renew routine integrated crewed flights as part of the agencies\u2019 long-standing civil alliance, now one of the last links of cooperation between the United States and Russia as tensions flare over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15 (Reuters) \u2014 NASA and Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos have signed a long-sought agreement to integrate flights to the International Space Station, allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly on U.S.-made spacecraft in exchange for American astronauts being able to ride on Russia\u2019s Soyuz, the agencies said Friday. \u201cThe agreement is in the interests of Russia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}