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With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?

Steve Todd

There's the slight issue of accelerating the drone to roughly 7 km/sec. Altitude isn't the problem. Getting up enough speed to achieve orbit is.

There are multiple providers who can get supplies up to the ISS. Getting a new crew there is the big issue.

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