NASA informed lawmakers on Wednesday that because Congress has failed to fully fund its Commercial Crew Program for the last five years, it is signing a $490 million contract extension with Russia to send Americans to space.
The new contract, running through 2019, means that NASA will continue to depend on Russia to get its astronauts to space even as tensions between Washington and Moscow escalate.
You can read the rest @
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/250322-nasa-signing-490m-contract-with-russia
And we have no one to blame except ourselves.
By the way, US entrepreneurs will never come to our rescue in this regard. Their main interest is developing vehicles to capture and mine asteroids. We'll pay for them to develop the technology, while they will reap the handsome rewards:
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/08/nuking-asteroid.html
This is what happens when nation states are replaced by market states - We The People are screwed while The Few flourish.
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