Submission + - US Congress decides to delay US launched astronauts, keep using Russian services (spacenews.com)
surfdaddy writes: In order to protect the entrenched big aerospace companies, the Congress has increased NASA's budget for FY2016 but has CUT funding for "commercial crew". Commercial crew is the funding used by SpaceX for the planned initial manned launches in the first half of 2017. With this cut the launch of US astronauts from US soil using US rockets will be delayed two years, and we will continue to send millions of dollars to Russia for launch services.
