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MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia has decided to stop supplying rocket engines to the United States in retaliation for its sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state space agency Roscosmos, said on Thursday. "In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what," Rogozin said on state Russian television. According to Rogozin, Russia has delivered a total of 122 RD-180 engines to the U.S. since 1990s, of which 98 have been used to power Atlas launch...

Timothy Bendel often stamps "RKBA" on his work. It's an acronym for the Second Amendment "Right to Keep and Bear Arms." ............. At 37, Bendel is through with his job at Lockheed Martin near Denver. For the past 18 months, he and his partners have been building and testing their own rocket engines and guidance systems. They are pioneers in the new space race - a race run by wealthy entrepreneurs and maverick engineers instead of the government. They call their company Frontier Astronautics.

“It is the heart of the problem we face. Because if manufacturers like Estes can’t get rocket motors delivered to stores, the hobby is completely dead,” Van Milligan said. © 2003 Space.com. All rights reserved

Source: Space News, April 22, 2002, page 3 Lockheed Questions Need for Domestic RD-180 Lockheed Martin is laying the groundwork to establish a U.S. production line for the Russian­heritage main engine for its Atlas 5 rocket, but holding off on any ma­jor investments toward that end amid doubts that such a capability ultimately will be necessary, according to a senior company official. Michael C. Gass, vice president of Atlas and Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programs at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Denver, said the money the U.S. Air Force is contemplating investing in the domestic manufacturing capability might be...