It's Rico Daley, I'm Roni Mola.

One of the most talked about aspects of the Cold War between the United States and the

Soviet Union was known as the space race, a competition between the two powers to prove

their technological capabilities in our space.

We don't want to find the hammer and sickle flag standing up on one of the peaks of the

war. We want it to be this star-spangled banner.

But after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. and Russia eventually decided they'd

make better collaborators than competitors. So the International Space Station, or ISS,

was born.

Sir, when liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis, as Columbus sets sail, avoid your science

to the space station, for more than two decades we've worked with Russia to maintain the

International Space Station. In both countries currently have astronauts aboard. But with

Russian invading Ukraine, this collaboration in space is in jeopardy.

It was unprovoked, but this is what Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed on Ukraine.

The Russian Space Chief is threatening to abandon the ISS, which is people freaking out

that the space station could come plummeting down to Earth.

Now is this all some more time bluster? Or do we need to prepare ourselves for the end

of the ISS as we know it?

Here to explain is Ricoh's Rebecca Hyalwile. Hey, Rebecca, hey, are we really going

to get hit with a flaming pile of space station? What's really going on here?

There are a lot of reasons why the ISS probably isn't going to come crashing down into the

Earth despite what you might have read on the internet this week. Basically NASA says

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