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
By Stephen Buono, Jake Hecla, Vladimir Kobezskii, Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Katie Mummah, July 21, 2021
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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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows, nuclear threats are real, present, and dangerous
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Stephen Buono
Stephen Buono is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), where he is writing a book... Read More
Jake Hecla
Jake Hecla is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He earned an undergraduate... Read More
Vladimir Kobezskii
Vladimir Kobezskii is an analyst in the Digital Product Office of the Engineering Division of ROSATOM State Corporation. He holds two MS degrees from... Read More
Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin
Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin is a research fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and... Read More
Katie Mummah
Katie Mummah is PhD student in nuclear engineering and engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate research assistant... Read More
I understand that Kennedy was considering US-Soviet cooperation in space before his assassination. I wonder how that would’ve gone.