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"They are using it to bribe people to purchase weapons from them, and they are doing it openly. That’s what I was objecting to."

The only costs incurred in taking this Malaysian tourist to the space station will be his transportation costs, which are paid for by the Russians. Your complaints are idiotic.

If the US wanted to take tourists to the ISS on the space shuttle I am sure the Russians couldn't care less. That is, if the space shuttle were flying, which it isn't.

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The only costs incurred in taking this Malaysian tourist to the space station will be his transportation costs, which are paid for by the Russians. Your complaints are idiotic.

You must have a very magnetic personality, on account of being so spectacularly dense.

As I very clearly stated, I object to the Russians using the space station (built in very large part with $25.9 billion dollars of US taxpayer money) as a hotel whose accomodations are available to any nation willing to purchase a billion dollar contract for Russian arms. The cost of the flight is completely irrelevant. I'm referring to the destination.

I’m sorry if this point is beyond your ken.