Who Owns the International Space Station?
Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Special Thanks to Ian O'Neill for hosting TestTube! The International Space Station is not owned by any one country. Who has access to ISS and how...
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The current tensions between Russia and the United States may be growing past sanctionsand military exercises. They may start to affect the International Space Station. Somenewsoutlets reported that Russia threatened to ban the United States from the ISS. This turnedout tobe untrue. But, it does bring up the question, who owns the International Space Station?Well, as a whole, no one country owns the ISS. It is a cooperative program between theUnited States, Russia, Canada, Japan and members of the European Space Agency, whichinclude 20 different European countries. They each signed the International Space StationIntergovernmental Agreement in 1998. This document created the international partnershipforthe design, development and operation of the ISS.So, those are the countries...
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The current tensions between Russia and the United States may be growing past sanctionsand military exercises. They may start to affect the International Space Station. Somenewsoutlets reported that Russia threatened to ban the United States from the ISS. This turnedout tobe untrue. But, it does bring up the question, who owns the International Space Station?Well, as a whole, no one country owns the ISS. It is a cooperative program between theUnited States, Russia, Canada, Japan and members of the European Space Agency, whichinclude 20 different European countries. They each signed the International Space StationIntergovernmental Agreement in 1998. This document created the international partnershipforthe design, development and operation of the ISS.So, those are the countries...
