[tlozo]

Russia provides the only means for us to get our people back and forth to the international space station

"Since then, a private American corporation has developed its own launch vehicle — SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule — which has drastically reduced NASA's dependency on Russia."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/business/us-russia-ukraine-iss-space-scn/index.html

[kearnyirish2]

Great; are we still using the Russians to ferry our people?

If we don’t, who sets the Uber rates for these trips by the “private American corporation”?