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Launching Your Tax Dollars to Russia
NASA recently executed a contract modification with the Russian Federal Space Agency purchasing additional transportation services to and from the International Space Station on the Soyuz. This latest contract cost $753 million, roughly $63 million per seat. Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a long line of agreements that has transferred billions of taxpayer dollars to Russia, below is a list of what NASA has spent on Russian crew transportation services since 2007.
2007: $719 million to fly 15 people -- $48 million per seat.
2008: $141 million to fly 3 people -- $47 million per seat.
2009: $306 million for 6 people -- $51 million per seat.
2010: $335 million for 6 people -- $56 million per seat.
2011: $753 million for 12 people -- $63 million per seat.
Total: $2.25 billion for 42 people – average cost per seat, $53.7 million.
Sending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas to support a foreign aerospace sector is deplorable and must come to an end. NASA funds should instead be invested in developing an American commercial crew transportation system that will support innovation and job growth here at home. Please join Bigelow Aerospace in calling for immediate and increased support for the commercial crew program in order to put an end to NASA’s outsourcing of human spaceflight and billions of taxpayer dollars to Russia.
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Since 1999 our mission has been to provide affordable options for spaceflight to national space agencies and corporate clients. In 2006 and 2007, we launched our orbiting prototypes Genesis I and Genesis II. Using our patented expandable habitats, our plan is to greatly exceed the usable space of the International Space Station at a fraction of the cost by developing our next generation spacecraft.
Launching Your Tax Dollars to Russia
NASA recently executed a contract modif- ication with the Russian Federal Space Agency purchasing additional transportation services to and from the International Space Station on the Soyuz. This latest contract cost $753 million, roughly $63 million per seat. Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a long line of agreements that has transferred billions of taxpayer dollars to Russia, below is a list of what NASA has spent on Russian crew transportation services since 2007.
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