Space - USA depending on Russia . Will be self financed by 2019 - Curt Lewis

NASA Chief Hopes U.S. Soon Won't Have to Pay Russia for Space Trips
In this one-second exposure photograph provided by NASA, a Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft launches for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 18, 2016. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
WASHINGTON - Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr. (USMC-Ret.), the head of NASA, told PJM that the U.S. government pays Russia roughly $70 million per seat for astronauts' trips to the International Space Station because of insufficient funding from Congress starting in 2010.

Bolden said the U.S. would have been "free" of relying on the Russians for space travel in 2015 with the proper funding for NASA's Commercial Crew Development program.
NASA's current $490 million contract with Russia runs through 2019.