Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, US astronaut docks at space station

Two Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut from the United States have docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine.

Russia to quit International Space Station ‘after 2024’: Roscosmos

Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station (ISS) “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency has told President Putin.

SpaceX successfully lands rocket on droneship

U.S. space firm SpaceX on Friday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station.

NASA suspends cooperation with Russia over Ukraine crisis

  The United States has suspended contact between NASA and its Russian counterpart over the ongoing situation in Ukraine.

• Only ongoing International Space Station cooperation will continue through the freeze in relations.

NASA associate administrator Michael O’Brien said in a memo sent Wednesday that all missions with Russia’s Roscosmos are on hold indefinitely, UPI reports.