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Old October 14th 18, 03:12 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley[_6_]
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Default Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing of Soyuz!

In article ,
says...

For years the US been dependent upon Russia for ISS access.
That's how reliable US is.


Yes we have because the US Congress has consistently given SLS/Orion
more funding than it asked for and has consistently short changed
commercial crew. In recent years they've fully funded commercial crew,
but the damage has already been done to the program. Here we are at the
cusp of flying test flights for commercial crew and we're essentially
waiting on NASA "paperwork" before they can fly. Hopefully the current
schedules hold so that crew will start flying on them in 2019.

The thing that I find most troubling though is that even when commercial
crew is flying, NASA will still fly astronauts on Soyuz in exchange for
flying Russian cosmonauts on commercial crew. If I had to pick between
the two, I would not choose to fly on Soyuz.

Jeff
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