Cyrylek
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And what happens when Russia is the only country that has vehicles that can get to space and they control the satellites and everything else up there.
From what we have seen recently, Russia is not anxious to work with the US so I would consider it in the national interest to keep a presence in space.
You have missed my "beyond the unavoidable defense infrastructure" caveat.
(But don't expect Russia (or China, for that matter) to get too far ahead in the "space race": "colonizing Mars", for example, is a project by a few orders of magnitude more complex than anything they had shown to be capable of, barring truly radical reforms. Not a matter of scale, but a matter of innovation and adaptation, on every step. If it is between the "Bezos and Bigelow" and the Putin's merry band of kleptocrats, my money is on the Western tycoons, safely.)