NASA on Thursday issued a rare condemnation of the Russian space agency, its main partner on the International Space Station, after its cosmonauts celebrated Russia’s capture of a region of eastern Ukraine. Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NASA has gone to great lengths to try to preserve the partnership on the space station, which has endured for more than 20 years. The space agency has highlighted the comity between the astronauts and cosmonauts living side-by-side in orbit and pledged the partnership would continue to endure. In a statement, the space agency said that it “strongly rebukes using the International Space Station for political purposes to support its war against Ukraine. Who is to blame for the war in Ukraine ?
