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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

Ukraine crisis unlikely to endanger International Space Station astronauts, says former US official

Andrey Shelepin/GCTC/Roscosmos via Reuters

Russian and American astronauts aboard the International Space Station ISS) are likely to be safe from diplomatic tensions over Ukraine unless their home nations go to war, a former US space official has said.

Scott Pace, who was executive secretary of the White House space council under former president Donald Trump, told The Associated Press that the ISS had been “largely isolated” from political squabbles.

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