The US and Russia continue cooperation in space and aviation, despite Crimea and Ukraine
Despite the cooling of political relations between Russia and the United States, cooperation between these countries in space and aviation is still planned for decades to come. The President of Boeing in Russia and the CIS, Sergei Kravchenko, stated this at the International Investment Forum in Sochi.
According to him, during the war in Yugoslavia and Georgia, the 11/XNUMX terrorist attacks and other events, American and Russian cosmonauts were close, and Russia is still the most important supplier for the American aviation industry.
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“In aviation and space, we plan for 20-30 years. During the time of Chernomyrdin-Gor, we conceived the International Space Station. In 96, the Russian multifunctional cargo block and the block that Boeing built, we met in orbit, and soon after that the Russian and American cosmonauts shook hands.
20 years have passed since that moment, not a single day has passed when there was not an American and a Russian in orbit working together. And they flew safely through Yugoslavia, through Georgia, through September 11, 2001. God willing, they will fly through these turbulences that are associated with Ukraine and Crimea.
The airplanes we sell, which create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, are sold under 10-year contracts. And the titanium that Russia supplies so that we can build all our wide-body aircraft is a twenty-year program worth 17 billion dollars,” Kravchenko said.
The US and Russia continue to cooperate in space and aviation, despite Crimea and Ukraine.