NASA needs to get on the horn to Elon Musk and start playing nice.

Russia Cuts Off U.S. Access to ISS, Pledges to Stop Ferrying American Astronauts in 2019

Short form: Russia has a contract with NASA to launch astronauts, and the contract ends in April, 2019. This is nothing particularly startling, and it’s entirely possible (probably probable) that NASA and Russia will sign a new contract and flights will continue uninterrupted. That said… BRING ON THE DRAGONS. It’s *long* past time that the US was back in the business of launching our own people into space. SpaceX is supposed to fly an unmanned-but-man-rated Dragon in November and an actually manned capsule in April of next year. Boeing is supposed to fly their capsule a few months later.