COLORADO SPRINGS (Sputnik) — Russia, the European Union and the United States were solid in a decision to extend the life of the International Space Station to 2024, well beyond the original plan for decommissioning in 2015.
"We are discussing also about future exploration subjects after the International Space Station. We are really in a discussion phase. Nothing concrete right now," Woerner said on Tuesday on the sidelines of a Space Symposium in the US state of Colorado.
Woerner said talks with Russia about the future will have to wait until after the symposium because Russian Federal Space Agency chief Igor Komarov did not attend the event.
"I’m meeting Igor quite frequently, so I will have further discussions with him very soon," Woerner noted.
Space exploration reflects a show of unity between Russia and the West that belies disagreements in other areas.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with astronauts on the International Space Station by video link, to mark the April 1961 flight of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
