{"id":1338417,"date":"2022-02-24T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338417"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:23:15","slug":"two-russian-cosmonauts-remain-at-intl-space-station-and-biden-just-sanctioned-russias-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-russian-cosmonauts-remain-at-intl-space-station-and-biden-just-sanctioned-russias-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Russian Cosmonauts Remain At Int\u2019l Space Station \u2014 And Biden Just Sanctioned Russia\u2019s Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-russian-cosmonauts-remain-at-intl-space-station-and-biden-just-sanctioned-russias-space-program%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1338417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1237343390.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday designed to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a full-scale invasion into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Among those sanctions were measures that Biden said, \u201cwill degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden says that today the US is blocking multiple large Russian banks including VTB, sanctioning Russian elites and family members, cutting off Russia\u2019s high tech imports which will prevent them from modernizing multiple industries such as their space program,\u201d CNN National Security correspondent Kylie Atwood <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylieatwood\/status\/1496920889891434505\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war, and now he and this country will bear the consequences. Today, I\u2019m authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to Russia,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/us-russia-sanctions-space-program-impact?utm_campaign=socialflow\">said<\/a> as he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-on-russia-invading-ukraine-nobody-expected-the-sanctions-to-prevent-anything-from-happening\/\">announced the new sanctions<\/a>. \u201cWe estimate that we\u2019ll cut off more than half of Russia\u2019s high-tech imports. That will strike a blow to their ability to continue to modernize their military. It\u2019ll degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But sanctions that impact the Russian space program directly could potentially complicate matters \u2014 and relationships \u2014 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as CNN space and defense correspondent Kristin Fisher noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden announces that new sanctions against Russia \u2018will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.\u2019 No mention of the partnership at the International Space Station where 4 NASA astronauts, 2 Russian cosmonauts, &#038; 1 European astronaut are currently on board,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden announces that new sanctions against Russia &#8220;will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No mention of the partnership at the International Space Station where 4 NASA astronauts, 2 Russian cosmonauts, &#038; 1 European astronaut are currently on board<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristin Fisher (@KristinFisher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KristinFisher\/status\/1496922684189560834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a report from the Associated Press published just one day earlier, however, experts do not expect tensions on the ground to spill over into the ISS and its continuing mission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An aerospace expert says tensions over Ukraine should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space. Four NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts are among those currently on the space station. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STozNjATMp\">https:\/\/t.co\/STozNjATMp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1496667230045679623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the AP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-technology-science-business-europe-1f07ebf7672d5cc6f9cd47d7f63d6f41?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=Twitter&#038;utm_medium=AP\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Tensions in eastern Ukraine and heightened Western fears of a Russian invasion should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space, the former head of the National Space Council told The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><em>Scott Pace, who served as executive secretary of the space council under President Donald Trump and is now the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said the space station \u201chas been largely isolated\u201d from political events.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s possible to imagine a break with Russia that would endanger the space station, but that would be at the level of a dropping diplomatic relations,\u201d said Pace. \u201cThat would be something that would be an utterly last resort so I don\u2019t really see that happening unless there is a wider military confrontation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In order to keep conflict on the ground from creating tensions at the ISS, Congress has previously designed sanctions to include a carveout exempting space cooperation, but Biden\u2019s comments\u00a0at Thursday\u2019s press conference \u2014 promising that sanctions would cripple the Russian space program going forward \u2014 could signal a change in that particular strategy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday designed to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching a full-scale invasion into Ukraine.Among those sanctions were measures that Biden said, \u201cwill degrade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}