Experts: Trump Needs Russian Help to Launch US Space Force

The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft lifts off carrying astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Just moments later, the mission would be aborted due to a booster rocket failure. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

By    |   Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:01 PM EDT ET

Complicating President Trump’s ambitious Space Force program, analysts say: U.S. dependence on Russia for critical space-launch technology.

When U.S. astronaut Nick Hague barely escaped disaster on Oct. 11 during an aborted launch on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station, America’s reliance on Russian technology was fully exposed.

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Complicating President Trump's ambitious Space Force program, analysts say: U.S. dependence on Russia for critical space-launch technology.When U.S. astronaut Nick Hague barely escaped disaster on Oct. 11 during an aborted launch on a Soyuz mission to the International...
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