Heck of a job you’re doing there, Barry! Now that you have announced your intent to gut the US manned spaceflight program, the Russians are going to do the only thing anyone with a capitalist mindset would do – start price-gouging.

When NASA retires its long-serving shuttle fleet as planned later this year, the United States and other countries will be wholly dependent on Russia to fly the station's six-man crew to and from orbit.

NASA has signed a deal worth 306 million dollars (224 million euros) with Roskomos for six rides to the ISS in 2012 and 2013, or a charge of 51 million dollars per US astronaut..

Russia has been charging space tourists $35 million for the trip.

Just call it one more example of the errors of Øbamunism!