US-Russia Tensions Not Felt in Space

Despite tensions, sanctions and recriminations between the United States and Russia, two American astronauts will join a Russian cosmonaut blasting off Wednesday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station. Even when things get nasty between the two countries, experts say the space program rarely suffers. The United States has depended entirely on Russia to deliver astronauts to the ISS since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. After President Barack Obama imposed...

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