U.S. Cedes the Space Race to...Russia?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030604070.html

Because the space shuttles have almost passed their useful lives, the U.S. is about to have no ability to send astronauts to the international space station and will have to rely on Russia for space transport.

Folks, this is what Chimpy and his conservative Republican minions have brought us down to: a second rate nation (at best).