Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin and NASA's Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier have discussed bilateral space cooperation, the Roscosmos press service said.
"They talked about the future of the ISS and further cooperation plans, pointing out that the NASA and Roscosmos groups continue to work and discuss cooperation and current pressing issues," TASS cited the press service as saying.
According to the press service, Roscosmos and NASA "hear and understand" each other as far as the future of the ISS goes, but no final decision has been made yet whether or not to extend its operation as "everything is under consideration."