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Russia cuts off U.S. access to ISS, pledges to stop ferrying American astronauts in 2019
Russia will stop shipping U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2019, Russian station Kommersant FM 93.6 has reported. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov reportedly said the return flight of a Soyuz-MS next year "will finalize the fulfillment of our obligation under a contract with NASA." With new crew-carrying vehicles still under development, the move may leave the U.S. unable to send astronauts to the ISS.
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Stop reproducing Russian propaganda. Russia is not "cutting" anyone. The NASA-Roskosmos contract for ferry is about to end in 2019. As well as Boeing and SpaceX ferry trials are about to begin in 2019 and NASA will probably not need Russia again. So Russia makes propaganda out of ending contract and you happily reproduce it.
Unless Newsweek has been taken by the S̷o̷v̷i̷e̷t̷s̷, er, C̷o̷m̷m̷i̷e̷s̷, um Russians, wouldn’t this be U.S. propaganda?
All liberal media nowadays are exploited by bigots like Trump or Putin whom you defended in another topic. Now you defend these media which will publish whatever gives clicks. Then you complain that Trump won and don't see a connection here. Laughably you might even consider yourself smart.
Newsweek is liberal media to you? Huh. “Defended?” You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. Someone that doesn’t immediately accept everything you say isn’t ‘defending’ the monster that lives under your bed.