An interior view of the Soyuz orbital module mock-up in Building 35 during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project joint crew training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in February 1975. The ASTP crewmen are astronaut Vance D. Brand (on left), command module pilot of the American ASTP prime crew; and cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov, engineer. NASA photo.

It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key

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An interior view of the Soyuz orbital module mock-up in Building 35 during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project joint crew training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in February 1975. The ASTP crewmen are astronaut Vance D. Brand (on left), command module pilot of the American ASTP prime crew; and cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov, engineer. NASA photo.

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Footnotes

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/earth-may-have-captured-a-1960s-era-rocket-booster.

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54238102.

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54238102.

[4] https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-moon-lander-launches-from-lunar-surface.

[5]https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/30/spacex-launches-two-nasa-astronauts-to-space-for-the-first-time.html.

[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/13/artemis-moon-mining-agreement-signed/.

[7] https://thediplomat.com/2020/12/russia-tests-anti-satellite-missile-us/.

[8] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/24/us-russia-space-477829.

[9] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042115300099

[10] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042115300099

[11] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2950290?journalCode=apc

[12] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S100702140770038X

[13] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20120009207/downloads/20120009207.pdf?attachment=true

[14] http://anstd.ans.org/NETS-2019-Papers/Track-4–Space-Reactors/abstract-119-0.pdf

[15] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576508004074

[16] https://thebulletin.org/2019/09/do-we-need-highly-enriched-uranium-in-space-again/

[17]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/00295450.2020.1725382?scroll=top&needAccess=true

[18] https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaea_safeguards_glossary.pdf

[19] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20201223a/full/

[20] https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-russian-federation-sign-joint-statement-reactor-conversion

[21] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Rosatom-revenue-from-stable-isotopes-rises-by-14

[22] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266516447_US-Russian_Cooperation_in_Science_and_Technology_A_Case_Study_of_the_TOPAZ_Space-Based_Nuclear_Reactor_International_Program

[23] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.47127

[24] Ponomarev-Stepnoy, Nikolay Nikolaevich. Personal communication, November 27, 2020

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Jenny Agutter fan
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2 years ago

I understand that Kennedy was considering US-Soviet cooperation in space before his assassination. I wonder how that would’ve gone.

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