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bananas
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June 16, 2012
Russia isn't a private corporation.
Right now we're at the whim of Russia for getting our astronauts to the ISS.
There are about a half-dozen companies developing different rockets and spaceplanes.
Musk just gets most of the attention.
And NASA is continuing work on Orion and SLS.
edit to add: and it's the pukes who are opposing commercial crew.
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