(Agence France-Presse) The head of NASA appealed to Congress on Friday to put more money into restoring America’s ability to send astronauts into space instead of relying on Russian rockets.
In an open letter, published in Wired magazine and titled “Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA,” Charles Bolden said the US government has essentially funded Moscow instead of pouring money into its own aerospace industry back home.
“Every dollar we invest in Moscow is a dollar we’re not investing in American businesses,” wrote Bolden, a former astronaut and the current administrator of NASA, the US space agency.
