The Russians Are Coming

11 November 2004: RSA Head to Appear in American Congress to Promote Russian Spaceship Sales, RIA Novosti

“Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Space Agency (RSA), will go this mid-December to the United States to make a statement in the US Congress, reports his assistant Vyacheslav Davidenko. “Perminov plans to go in the middle of December on an official visit to the United States at NASA invitation. The RSA head is expected to make a report in the US Congress on progress in the construction and further exploitation of the International Space Station as well as to discuss the sale of Russia’s cargo Progress rockets and Soyuz spaceships for carrying new crews to the International Space Station,” said Davidenko.”