all space cooperation with china, but it did not and has not banned space cooperation with russia. now, you ve been one of nasa s leaders over the last decade, or two or three. do you acknowledge that the increased dependency of nasa on cooperation with russia, particularly in the last decade, has been a major strategic mistake? i think at this point, what we re seeing is that now we have our own servicing, our own ability to fly the space station. we re not dependent on russia to do that. we were at one time. i think we then realised. if i may say so, we had the prospect even just weeks ago of the russians leaving a us scientist in space because they were so angry about the imposition of american sanctions on russia as a result of the invasion of ukraine. the russians have told nasa that future cooperation will not happen as long
functioning very well. right. the militarisation of space and the notion that the united states needs to develop its capabilities there has led the us to ban all space cooperation with china, but it did not and has not banned space cooperation with russia. now, you ve been one of nasa s leaders over the last decade, or two or three. kami do you acknowledge that the increased dependency kami ependency of nasa on cooperation with russia, particularly in the last decade, has been a major strategic mistake? i think at this point, what we re seeing is that now we have our own servicing, our own ability to fly the space station. we re not dependent on russia to do that. we were at one time. i think we then realised. if i may say so, we had the prospect even just weeks ago of the russians leaving a us scientist in space because they were so angry about the imposition
space and the notion that the united states needs to develop its capabilities there has led the us to ban all space cooperation with china, but it did not and has not banned space cooperation with russia. now, you ve been one of nasa s leaders over the last decade, or two or three. do you acknowledge that the increased dependency of nasa on cooperation with russia, particularly in the last decade, has been a major strategic mistake? i think at this point, what we re seeing is that now we have our own servicing, our own ability to fly the space station. we re not dependent on russia to do that. we were at one time. i think we then realised. if i may say so, we had the prospect even just weeks ago of the russians leaving a us scientist in space because they were so angry about the imposition
right. the militarisation of space and the notion that the united states needs to develop its capabilities there has led the us to ban all space cooperation with china, but it did not and has not banned space cooperation with russia. now, you ve been one of nasa s leaders over the last decade, or two or three. do you acknowledge that the increased dependency of nasa on cooperation with russia, particularly in the last decade, has been a major strategic mistake? i think at this point what we re seeing is that now we have our own servicing, our own ability to fly the space station. we re not dependent on russia to do that. we were at one time. i think we then realised.