Space has typically been an area for international cooperation, insulated from geopolitical tensions that flare up on the surface of the planet. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already sparked tensions that stretch into Earth’s orbit, putting the future of the International Space Station and other Russian space endeavors in peril.
And that’s led us to an absurd Twitter fight between former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, and the current head of the Russian space program Dmitry Rogozin.
Rogozin—who is already no stranger to incendiary remarks—has been on a tweet spree since the invasion began, in one post suggesting that his country was prepared to let the ISS fall out of orbit and crash into Earth.
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