It’s exit stage left for the Russian Space Agency.
The Kremlin will be taking leave from the International Space Station come 2024.
NASA and it’s international affiliates want to keep the station operational until at least 2030, but Moscow isn’t agreeing to anything past two years from now.
In fact, Russia wants to build their own orbiting outpost.
For the past 22 years, the station has had human life occupying it for research in zero gravity conditions and more.
The first piece of the space station was put into orbit in 1998.
