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Russia's space director in a tweet saying the rockets are more beautiful prompting former nasa astronaut kelly to say your program won't be be worth a damn. maybe find a job at mcdonald's if mcdonald's 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 american rockets russia's space director saying on russian state tv, let them fly on something els...

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.

Washington's 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 deputy prime minister of the russian federal racing and a long-time putin ally and one of the offi...