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One senior employee sent the directive to the two companies

Dec. 2, 2018 by Devin Jones

One senior employee sent the directive to the two companies in question. A Roscosmos spokesman wrote in an email, "No one has ever received a directive from the Russian government to be effective at stopping waste and frauds and to create a better and more transparent process that reflects the values of the company."

The Kommersant paper noted that the directive "does not address the issues with the safety of Roscosmos products and services, which have long been the focus of many reports that were produced about Roscosmos."

This is just the latest example of how companies around the world have stepped up their efforts to promote the defense of their companies. A March 2014 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that more than $500 million from the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative had been spent helping contractors build the first new rocket in the last decade. That's more than twice the amount spent on the space shuttle, which launched more than 200 manned missions.

On the other side of the aisle from Russia, Boeing and Lockheed Martin also have some serious work to do to improve their safety record. In its latest report, the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that, in the last four years, the U.S. has spent only $1.1 billion on the space shuttle, the third-lowest of any U.S. military organization. And in February, Boeing announced it would hire a team of seven people to study the safety of its Falcon 9 rocket, which was built to fly between the White House and the Space Shuttle, using the same technology as SpaceX's Dragon capsule.

The report is more than a little troubling. As noted by Alex Schatz at Foreign Policy, the U.S. military spends a staggering $7.1 trillion on its space program, and the costs are far greater than those of a comparable American space program. And if these "revenue-cutting initiatives" are indeed the only effective way to protect U.S. national security, then what could be more embarrassing than the cost of space to the rest of the world?The most important thing to remember about this story at the end of the year is that the original story was an absolute disaster. I remember reading one of these, and I think it was the worst movie I could remember.

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