In a video published by the Russian space agency, the decoupling of the ISS and its subsequent fall to Earth is simulated. A song called "Goodbye" plays in the background of the clip.
Russian cosmonauts bid farewell to their American colleagues on the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows them floating joyfully as "Proschay" (goodbye), a song whose lyrics say: "We will not find the way back to the other, nor ourselves". They enter the Russian module, which decouples from the Station. The video ends with the ISS falling to Earth and a text: "Based on unreal events".
The clip is a fiction that apparently made Roscosmos (the Russian Federal Space Agency) and that the media RIA Novosti recently published. The simulation comes at a critical time in the scientific relations between Western and Russian agencies that threatens to torpedo the collaboration around the International Space Station.
After US President Joe Biden announced sanctions that would affect the Russian aerospace industry, including its space program, Roscosmos director Dmitri Rogozin wrote a long Twitter thread in which he "remembers" that the ISS orbit is controlled from the Russian sector of the station. "Who will save the ISS from a runaway orbit and a fall in the United States or Europe?" he tweeted.
The Russians have blamed the United States, Britain, France and Germany for the "collapse" of cooperation in space. "These countries destroyed what was created by humanity with such difficulty, which was created by the blood and sweat of those who dominated space," Rogozin added. NASA had already responded to this with a statement.
"NASA continues to work with all its international partners, including the Roscosmos State Space Corporation, to keep the International Space Station running safely," the US space agency said. The video so far does not go beyond a "joke".
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