Four hundred kilometres above our heads, a safe space debate is raging.
Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has threatened to bring the International Space Station, the zenith of US-Russia cooperation since 1993, crashing back to Earth. “If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and a fall on the United States or Europe?”, ranted Dmitri Rogozin, director of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, after US sanctions hit Russia’s rocket programme.
