The United States will pay Russia $306 million to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station and back. That taxi service will be needed after NASA loses the ability to take its own astronauts to space, up to the space station that cost Washington some $100 billion. NASA next year is mandated to stop flying the space shuttle fleet. And the next-generation U.S. spaceship, Orion-Ares, won't be ready for manned flight until 2015. Even former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin…
After NASA Is Grounded As Shuttles Retire, Russian Soyuz Flights To Transport American Astronauts Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $306 Million
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