Russia Plans to Abandonbr International Space Station.br Russia is officially pulling out of thebr International Space Station after 20 yearsbr of collaborative research. .br Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s statebr space corporation, Roscosmos, confirmedbr the news to the ‘Financial Times.’.br We are beginning negotiations withbr our NASA partners, we are formalizingbr them now … We will simply handbr over the responsibility for ourbr segment to the partners, Dmitry Rogozin, via Futurism.br Rogozin also stressed that Russia’s withdrawalbr does not mean the station will be immediatelybr “scrapped and dumped into the ocean.” .br On April 20, Rogozin uploaded a video to br Twitter showing the beginning constructionbr of Russia’s own space station. .br Rogozin says they are planning tobr launch it into orbit by 2030.br Russia also recentlybr signed an agreementbr to build a stationbr with China.br This comes after the country declined offers frombr NASA to develop the Gateway, a similar station.