House OKs NASA buying Soyuz

September 25, 2008 By Mark K. Matthews

NASA's top achievement in Congress this year boils down to a single sentence - one line in a huge spending bill that would allow NASA to circumvent an arms-control law and purchase Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft.



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