--- title: International Space Station: Russia Floats ISS Pullout Over Sanctions description: Moscow made the threat amid U.S. sanctions for its actions in Ukraine canonical: https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-14T18:52:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:50:12.990Z article:section: Science og:title: International Space Station: Russia Floats ISS Pullout Over Sanctions og:description: Moscow made the threat amid U.S. sanctions for its actions in Ukraine og:url: https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc64452658532cd89/69868f36361760753d90bfc8/753449main_s134e010590_full.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The International Space Station: Putin won't come to play anymore og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: International Space Station: Russia Floats ISS Pullout Over Sanctions twitter:description: Moscow made the threat amid U.S. sanctions for its actions in Ukraine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc64452658532cd89/69868f36361760753d90bfc8/753449main_s134e010590_full.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Russia Threatens To Cut Ties to International Space Station Over U.S. Sanctions by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 14, 2014 6:52 PM UTC  The International Space Station: Putin won't come to play anymore The International Space Station: Putin won't come to play anymoreNASA by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 14, 2014 6:52 PM UTC Russia is threatening to pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2020. The threat was made in response to U.S. sanctions placed on Russian officials. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who happens to be one of these officials, taunted the U.S.’s ability to use the ISS without Moscow’s help. “I propose the United States delivers its astronauts to the ISS with the help of a trampoline,” Rogozin said. The United States currently pays Russia $60 million for every astronaut who needs to be ferried to and from the station, since America’s shuttle program was recently cut. But NASA officials have not received any official notification about changes in their space cooperation agreements. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/"},"headline":"Russia Threatens To Cut Ties to International Space Station Over U.S. Sanctions","datePublished":"2014-05-14T18:52:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:50:12.990Z","description":"Moscow made the threat amid U.S. sanctions for its actions in Ukraine","url":"https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/","keywords":["astronomy","NASA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc64452658532cd89/69868f36361760753d90bfc8/753449main_s134e010590_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc64452658532cd89/69868f36361760753d90bfc8/753449main_s134e010590_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The International Space Station: Putin won't come to play anymore","caption":"The International Space Station: Putin won't come to play anymore","creditText":"NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/astronomy/","name":"astronomy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/99509/russia-threatens-nasa/","name":"Russia Threatens To Cut Ties to International Space Station Over U.S. Sanctions"}}]}] ```