“One person unlikely to be worried about the bans is Elon Musk, who recently said ULA – a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing – has an unfair monopoly on U.S. Air Force rocket launches and could save the Air Force $1bn if the process was opened up to privateers. Musk’s space venture SpaceX is also pursuing the possibility of private human transport to low orbit using its Dragon spacecraft. Currently, the US pays Russia $60m per person to fly astronauts to the ISS, according to the UK Telegraph. Rogozin claimed Russia could still use the ISS for its own purposes. ‘The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one,’ he said. ‘The US one cannot.'”
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