The United States today announced that it will resume flights to the International Space Station with Russia despite its attempt to isolate Moscow because of its military operation in Ukraine.

“To ensure the safe continuation of the International Space Station, protect the lives of astronauts, and ensure the continued presence of the United States in space, NASA will continue to bring together the crews of the American spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz (rocket ). ” This is stated in the message of the US space agency (NASA).

NASA has announced that astronaut Frank Rubio will fly with two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz rocket due to launch on September 21 from Kazakhstan.

The announcement came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency, which had previously criticized U.S. astronauts.

NASA said the International Space Station is intended to be operated jointly by US, Russian, European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies.

“The station is designed to connect and rely on contributions from all space agencies,” he added. No space agency can operate separately from other agencies. ”