NASA Asked How to Keep Space Station Going Without Russia

Lawmakers have asked NASA’s chief how the U.S. can maintain use of the International Space Station if Russia delivers on a threat to end its participation after 2020 as the crisis in Ukraine strains relations.

“We will need to step back and evaluate the costs and benefits of maintaining” the station “without our Russian partners,” House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, and members of the panel said in a letter today to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.