US-Russian cooperation in human spaceflight: assessing the impacts

How far the broad security, political and economic goals behind the USA's invitation to Russia to participate in the International Space Station have been achieved is assessed in this synthesis of the views of a range of experts in Russian affairs and US foreign and national security policy. The article covers the impacts of cooperation on the Russian aerospace industrial base, on nonproliferation issues and on overall US-Russian relations. Various themes are identified-such as Russian ambivalence over embracing Western norms-and while the experts agreed on certain subjects, there was no overall unanimity. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.