Russia signs on to NASA deep space gateway goal

said braka 10:30 AM
It looks as if outer space cooperation

between East and West will continue after the United States and Russia agreed to work together in the next step of deep space exploration. At the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, this week, NASA and the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, signed a joint statement making the US space agency's deep space gateway concept a common goal for the two major powers.
As the International Space Station (ISS) enters the last decade of its planned operational life, the next phase of manned space exploration begins to loom larger. One point of focus is NASA's Orion crew capsule designed for deep space missions to cislunar space, the asteroids, and Mars. A major component of such missions is potentially the deep space gateway, which is a small space station that would be placed in cislunar orbit and act as a jumping off point for manned deep space missions beyond the Moon.