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Jul 2022
20m 18s

Russia to leave International Space Stat...

Al Jazeera
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Russia has decided to pull out of the International Space Station to build its own instead. How possible is this? And how will this impact the future of space exploration and research?

Join host Bernard Smith. 

Guests:

Pavel Felgenhauer - defense and military analyst.

Amy Thompson - science journalist and contributor to Space.com.

Francisco Diego - lecturer at the department of physics and astronomy at University College London.

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