The US success will potentially deprive Roscosmos that suffered corruption scandals and a number of malfunctions, of the lucrative fees it charged to take US astronauts to the ISS
Russia’s space agency criticized 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, on Saturday launched two Americans into orbit from Florida en route to the International Space Station (ISS), a landmark mission that ended Russia’s monopoly on flights there.
