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Steve Gorman

NASA shrugs off Roscosmos leader's rant over U.S. sanctions and space station

FILE PHOTO: Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin attends a meeting of the State Commission on the eve of a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in Baikonur, Kazakhstan December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Pool

NASA on Friday shrugged off public comments from the head of its Russian counterpart suggesting U.S. sanctions imposed against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis could "destroy" U.S.-Russian teamwork on the International Space Station (ISS).

Dmitry Rogozin, director-general of Russian space agency Roscosmos, took to Twitter on Thursday denouncing new constraints on high-tech exports to Russia that U.S. President Joe Biden said were designed to "degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program."

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