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Russias space director in a tweet saying the rockets are more beautiful prompting former nasa astronaut kelly to say your program wont be be worth a damn. maybe find a job at mcdonalds if mcdonalds still exists in russia. >> the space program has always risen above geopolitical issuesing on the ground, if you will. putting a huge impact and hampers u.s. relations on the space program. >> reporter: in retaliation russia will no longer supply the u.s. with rd 180. a major engine used in several am...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said should a year-long continuing resolution come to pass, the disruption for sat launches would "ripple" for years.

Washingtons use of sanctions. to deliver heavy payloads into space, satellites with classified missions, the u.s. air force employs the atlas v system. the contract was awarded to a joint venture between lockheed martin and boeing to purchase engines. but the engines that ula uses in the atlas v system are manufactured by a kremlin controlled entity called npo. the engines are rd-180. powered in part by liquid oxygen and fetch 15 to $20 million apiece, the russian space sector is overseen by the...

Go out and purchase as many russian engines as possible before future sanctions go into place. this may not be in the best interests of u.s. diplomacy. >> a spokesperson for ula told fox news, ula maintains a two to three year supply of rd-180 engines in the united states to minimize potential disruption, the supply chain has never experienced a supply disruption in the 15 years of imports and russia has taken no action to restrict sales or exports of the rd-180. we asked the state depth whether...

The supply chain has never experience ad supply disruption in the 15 year of imports the spokesperson said. russia has taken no actions to restrict sales or exports of the rd-180. we also asked the state department whether u.s. diplomacy on ukraine is being underminded by the pentagon space launches. >> i think the individual youre referring to was obviously sanctioned as an individual, not as a company. we have a range of authorities as you all know and flexibility with the executive order. >> ...

where is it going inspect its headed to mars. this is one of the latest and the most ambitious missions by mars. it will be looking for life on the red planet. john zarrella will be joining me here in just a moment. were only a minute away here, john. i want our viewers to be able to hear mission control here in a second. were just a minute away and, actually, im going to go ahead. john, you stand by for me. when this takes off, well be talking about this ambitious mission. over the to...