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NASA astronaut: International politics hasn't reached the Space Station

By [173]Michael Casey
Published January 12, 2016
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File photo - NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams listens to questions from the
media Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

File photo - NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams listens to questions from the
media Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Amid ongoing tension between Russia and the United States, it seems the
only place the two countries do get along is up in space.

Both play an integral role on the International Space Station, a fact
that will be highlighted March 18 when American astronaut Jeff
Williams, along with Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg
Skripochka, launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz TMA-20M
spacecraft. The launch take place from the Baikonur Commodore in
Kazakhstan and the trio join Expedition 47 Commander Tim Copra of NASA,
astronaut Timothy Peace of the ESA (European Space Agency), and
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency).

Williams, who is making his third-long duration stay on the station,
told FoxNews.com that politics on Earth have yet to gravitate to the
station. “The international public rhetoric we hear on the news has
been above and beyond us and hasn’t really touched us directly,” he
said. “It’s almost like we are isolated from it, which I’m very
grateful for,” he said.

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Speaking to reporters at a press conference at the agency’s Johnson
Space Center in Houston, Williams also said the cooperation and
goodwill on the station allowed the two nations to do much more in
space than either could alone â€" noting how “support kind of diminished
rapidly” after the success of Apollo 11.

“The geopolitical circumstances were driving that. The largely symbolic
victory was won so the technical objectives weren’t there,” the father
of two from Wisconsin said.

“Based on my experience working on the space station, I believe if we
weren’t partners with Russia in the international space station neither
of our countries would be flying people into space today,” added
Williams, who will be spending six months up on the space station.
“That is my personal belief. If you examine the history, it’s very
logical to come to that conclusion.”

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Going further, Williams said any future space mission â€" whether that be
to the Moon or to Mars â€" would have to be done with similar
international cooperation. “I can’t image doing that to completion
outside of an international partnership,” he explained.
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