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Old December 30th 04, 05:11 PM
Christopher
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:08:02 +0100, jacob navia
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The BBC is reporting that after the 2006 contract completion, the
Russian space agency will only fly US astronauts on a commercial basis.


Well, they learned capitalism fairly quickly isn't it?

You wanted a capitalist Russia, now you got it!

Why should they ferry americans for free?

So if "I" came alone with my $14,000,000 for a week long trip to the
ISS like Tito did, I wouldn't be able to go?


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