section_path: Space exploration
section_name: Space exploration
paragraph_text: Space exploration
  
  The Planetary Society is known to have collaborated with Russia, especially Cosmos 1 and LIFE.
  
  In 2014, NASA renewed a contract to ferry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station on Soyuz rockets and spacecraft. Including additional support at the Russian launch site, this contract is costing the United States $457.9 million. Along with the renewal, NASA also announced that they would be cutting some contacts with Russia after the annexation of Crimea.
  
  In June 2021, NASA administrator Bill Nelson told CNN Business' Rachel Crane about the future of U.S.–Russian cooperation in the International Space Station (ISS): "For decades, upwards now of 45 plus years Russians in space, and I want that cooperation to continue. Your politics can be hitting heads on Earth, while you are cooperating" in space.