[ddrt]

Ah, I see is first time experiencing Russian loss. Is normal response to losing.

[Koshkin]

I wonder if Russia has indeed just lost the international market for manned space flights.

[rst]

Well, Dragon looks a whole lot more comfortable than Soyuz, though it hasn't nearly got the same track record yet. And SpaceX is already in the market for space tourism and commercial projects (witness the Tom Cruise movie-in-space thing, which could be seen as either or both).

The current Russian development projects Rogozin describes could flip that back -- but a lot of the speech is how those have, to this point, been moving awfully slowly...

[simion314]

Was there a competition? I assume US will use their own tech if possible even if is more risky to avoid the dependency on Russia.

[virtue3]

That would be false, otherwise we would not have retired the shuttle.

[NikolaeVarius]

There is always implied competition when it comes to space since its something that only the "richest" countries can do, especially crewed spaceflight

[simion314]

I do not see what competition or race US won, I mean US just catch up in a way, they managed to wash the humiliation of depending on Russia but I could not see how catching up is a win.

[NikolaeVarius]

The race to build a modern crewed vehicle to the ISS. Compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orel_(spacecraft)