--- title: Russia's Space Boss Threatens the Space Station description: Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, says his country will dissolve its partnership in space with the U.S. over Western sanctions. canonical: https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-05-06T19:07:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T14:13:49.182Z article:section: Science og:title: More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss og:description: Holding the International Space Station hostage og:url: https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a01c4d6896b4c26/698a3192b3fce3d5f40c9384/Rogozin-and-Putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3948 og:image:height: 2221 og:image:alt: Russian President Vladimir Putin Marks Cosmonaut Day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss twitter:description: Holding the International Space Station hostage twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a01c4d6896b4c26/698a3192b3fce3d5f40c9384/Rogozin-and-Putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss > Sponsored content. 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Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin enters the hall while visiting NPO Enegromash, a major Russian rocket manufacturer, in Khimki, northwest of Moscow. Getty Images; 2019 Mikhail Svetlov  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large May 6, 2022 7:07 PM UTC The Russian invasion of [Ukraine](https://time.com/tag/ukraine/) continues to extend its reach—not just around the world, but into space. For that we have Dmitry Rogozin—an intemperate man in what demands to be a temperate business—to blame. Much of the world came to know Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, back in 2014, when he was deputy prime minister, and Russia had launched its first incursion into Ukraine, seizing Crimea. Then, as now, the U.S. imposed sanctions and then, as now, the Russians cried foul. But Rogozin went a step further. At the time, the space shuttle had been retired, and [the U.S.](https://time.com/6150787/putin-us-risk-ukraine-war/) was dependent on hitching rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Rogozin took to Twitter to tie the sanctions and America’s humbling dependence on the Soyuz together. “After analyzing the sanctions against our [space](https://time.com/tag/space/) industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,” [he famously tweeted](https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/trampoline-space-russian-official-tells-nasa-take-flying-leap-n92616) in April 2014. Things have only gotten worse now that Rogozin runs Roscosmos and Russia is deep in a much bloodier and uglier war across the breadth of Ukraine. The ISS stays aloft in part thanks to regular reboosts from the engine of a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the Russian end of the station. In March, Rogozin threatened to hold the station hostage again. “The Russian segment ensures that the station’s orbit is corrected … including to avoid space debris,” [he wrote](https://www.voanews.com/a/sanctions-could-cause-space-station-to-crash-russia-says-/6481988.html) on the messaging app Telegram. Along with the message he published a map showing that the ISS passes over only a small portion of Russia in its orbits, but does pass regularly over the U.S. and Europe—where a falling station could theoretically crash. “The populations of other countries, especially those led by the ‘dogs of war’, should think about the price of the sanctions against Roscosmos,” he wrote. This week, [as _Live Science_ reports](https://www.livescience.com/russia-to-leave-international-space-station-chief-says), Rogozin spoke out yet again, this time threatening to abandon Russia’s space station partnership with the U.S. entirely. In a statement to the government-owned Rossiya-24 TV channel, Rogozin said: “The decision has already been made.” He did not say exactly when the breach would happen—only that it would—and that Moscow would give Washington a year’s notice of when it intends to abandon the outpost, “in accordance with our obligations.” Some of this is just bluster. The Biden Administration and NASA have both signaled their hope to keep the aging station aloft until 2030, which would extend the original agreement among the 15 international partners who operate it to decommission it in 2024\. Russia has not yet signaled its agreement with the extension to 2030\. This means that if it announced in 2023 its intent to pull out in a year, it would simply be sticking to the original 2024 timeline. What’s more, while it’s true that the station depends on the Soyuz for its periodic reboosts, an American spacecraft could do just as well and NASA is already testing the ability of a U.S. Cygnus cargo vessel to do the job. The biggest danger from Rogozin’s latest threat is not to the station itself, but to the international comity that has kept the giant outpost flying for the past 24 years. The great project has succeeded all this time not thanks just to cool heads, but to good will. Rogozin, again, is demonstrating neither. _This story originally appeared in TIME Space, our weekly newsletter covering all things space._ [_You can sign up here._](https://time.com/newsletters/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/"},"headline":"More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss","datePublished":"2022-05-06T19:07:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T14:13:49.182Z","description":"Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, says his country will dissolve its partnership in space with the U.S. over Western sanctions","url":"https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/","keywords":["Space","healthscienceclimate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a01c4d6896b4c26/698a3192b3fce3d5f40c9384/Rogozin-and-Putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a01c4d6896b4c26/698a3192b3fce3d5f40c9384/Rogozin-and-Putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Russian President Vladimir Putin Marks Cosmonaut Day","caption":"Russian President Vladimir Putin Marks Cosmonaut Day","creditText":"Getty Images; 2019 Mikhail Svetlov","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/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6174331/rogozin-threatens-space-station/","name":"More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss"}}]}] ```