MOSCOW, March 27 (UPI) -- Russia may at some point use modules it sends to the International Space Station to build its own orbital station, a senior space industry official said.
Russia plans to launch four new ISS modules by 2020, but could re-use them when the time comes to de-orbit the existing international space station, Alexander Derechin, deputy chief designer for Russia's space corporation RKK Energia, said at a scientific forum in Moscow.