Looking Across The Looming Gap

NASA Wary of Relying on Russia, Washington Post

“Griffin has testified that while the waiver is essential, it is “unseemly, simply unseemly, for the United States — the world’s leading power and leading space power — to be reduced to purchasing services like this. It affects, in my view, how we are seen in the world, and not for the better.” NASA’s budget calls for spending $2.6 billion for transportation to the space station between fiscal 2009 and 2013. As it stands now, much of that would go to the Russians.”