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Russians and Americans live and work together for six months at a time on the International Space Station. Given that tensions between Moscow and Washington are way up after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, we wondered how the conversation is going way up there.

Is there any chance Russia-US tensions could end up on the International Space Station?

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