America needs Russian rocket engines to fly to space

America needs Russian rocket engines to fly to space
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 01, 2015 - US space agencies need additional Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines until a domestically produced equivalent is ready for use, the head of US Space Command said June 26. "Without access to the RD-180... we severely limit our assured access [to space], undermine the competition we have worked so diligently to enable and will have traded one monopoly for another in the medium and intermedia ... morehttp://www.spacewar.com/reports/America_Needs_Russian_Rocket_Engines_to_Fly_to_Space_Wars_Space_Command_999.html