Mark Vandy Haye was scheduled to return to Earth on a Russian spacecraft within 3 weeks, but the video clip posted by Dmitry Rogozin on social media cast doubt on the astronaut’s safety..
The head of the Russian Space Agency also warned that “without the help of Russia to move the International Space Station away from space debris, the station will fall on the United States,” according to the British newspaper “Express”.
For his part, the former American astronaut, Scott Kelly, responded fiercely to what he considered a “threat”, and told ABC News: “I never thought I would hear something so horrible.”
He continued, “I think it’s just a crazy threat. It’s not based on reality, as we have the ability to control the orbit of the space station independently from the Russian Space Agency, so I don’t really expect that to happen.”
It is noteworthy that the International Space Station is divided into two parts, there is the Russian orbital part, which is controlled by Russia, and the American orbital part, which is operated by the United States.
This dispute is considered the latest episode in the ongoing dispute between the space cooperators, whose relations have been strained due to the severe US sanctions imposed on Russia, following the military operation it launched against Ukraine..
And last week, tensions escalated between Rogozin and Kelly, when they had a public argument on social media, over a video Rogozin posted.
Rogozin shared a video clip showing Russian cosmonauts covering the British and American flags on a Russian Soyuz rocket, and wrote: “The Baikonur rocket launchers decided that without the flags of some countries, our rocket would look more beautiful.”
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