Will China and Russia take care of the space station?

NASA Watch's Keith Cowing picks up on a Russian statement suggesting that China has been asked to join the International Space Station partnership ... to help fill the spaceflight gap created by the space shuttle fleet's retirement. (To see the Russian statement in English, click on the website's "English" button, then click back.) I can only imagine how members of Congress will take to the idea of NASA astronauts hitching rides on Chinese space capsules. One Giant Leap backward, one Great Leap Forward? Update: Other sources say Russia has not issued an invite.

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conny777

I think it is ridiculous that we have to rely on China or Russia to go to the space station. Russia could not take care of there Mir station and China is no better! Down grade the United States some more. it is a shame that we can not hold our own. For as much money we spend, that we could not come up with something better of our own. WE have the smartest people but there is to much politics involved. to have to bum a right is just degrading.