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Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump's reaction 'hysteria'

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Russia’s space agency criticised U. S. President Donald Trump’s “hysteria” about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U. S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space.
Russia’s space agency criticised U. S. President Donald Trump’s “hysteria” about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U. S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space.
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit on Saturday en route to the International Space Station (ISS), a landmark mission that ended Russia’s monopoly on flights there.
Trump, who observed the launch, said the United States had regained its place as the world’s leader in space, that U.

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