FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-11 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia's space chief said Tuesday, July 26, 2022, that they will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)