"Today, we are one step closer to launching our astronauts from US soil on American spacecraft and ending the nation's sole reliance on Russia by 2017," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in the release.
"A decade later, it all seems surreal. I cannot imagine, as I did a decade ago, standing near soldiers in Moscow watching a 'Peace March' of thousands of protestors through the Russian capital city."
"The mission included two Russian astronauts and NASA's Butch Wilmore. I wrote about this as the fifth part of my Adrift series on the state of America's space program."
"The airport we used to fly from Moscow to Kazakhstan, Domodedovo, has been attacked by Ukrainian drones. I almost certainly can never go back to Russia..."
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