[Dan Evans]

Opening the door to the next frontier. Keeping America ahead and in the lead.

If they are keeping America ahead, then why are we paying Russia to ferry astronauts to the space station and why is China launching satellites for US companies?

"Russia conducted the majority of space launches last year, according to Russian officials, carrying out 42.6 percent of launches compared to 29.6 percent by the United States, 14.8 by China and just 5.6 percent by the ESA itself, ahead of India's 1.9 percent share."

[Names Ash Housewares]

"If they are keeping America ahead, then why are we paying Russia to ferry astronauts to the space station and why is China launching satellites for US companies?"

Because it is the "international" space station and our shuttle fleet just had a major failure to recover from.