俄羅斯考慮建造自己的空間站

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state space agency Roscosmos is considering building its own space station, RIA news agency quoted its chief as saying on Monday, underlining how International tensions are affecting space cooperation.

莫斯科（路透社）——俄羅斯聯邦航天局正考慮建造自己的空間站，俄羅斯通訊社援引該局局長的話說，這表明國際緊張局勢正在影響空間合作。

Such a project would rival the International Space Station (ISS), an orbiting laboratory that involves 15 nations including Russia and the United ow has cast doubt on the ISS's long-termfuture as ties with Washington plummet over Ukraine.

這樣的一個新項目將與國際空間站進行競爭。由於美俄關係因爲烏克蘭問題而惡化，所以俄羅斯對國際空間站的長遠未來已經產生懷疑。

"I confirm we are considering such an option. This is a possible direction of development," RIA quoted Roscosmoshead Oleg Ostapenko as saying when asked about whether Russia has plans to develop it own space station.

“我確定我們正在考慮自己建立一個空間站。這是一個可能的選擇，”俄羅斯聯邦航天局局長說。

He said such a space station could become akey part of Russian missions to the Moon.

他說這樣的空間站可成爲俄羅斯登月計劃中關鍵的一部分內容。

It is not clear how such a project would be financed as Russia is widelyexpected to enter recession next year and the economic crisis is aggravated by Western sanctions over Russia's policy in the Ukraine crisis.

由於俄羅斯明年極有可能步入衰退，所以不知道將從哪裏獲得資金來支持這樣的項目。而且由於被西方制裁，俄羅斯的經濟危機進一步的惡化了。