US not ready for a solo space ride

From 2011 to 2020, the US relied solely on Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS

When US President Joe Biden announced wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia following its attack on Ukraine, he mentioned the penalties would “degrade their aerospace industry, including the space programme”. To this, Russian space agency director Dmitry Rogozin replied: “Perhaps President Biden is out of the loop, so explain to him that correcting the station’s (International Space Station) orbit and corrections to avoid conjunctions with space junk ... is made possible exclusively using the engines of Russia’s Progress MS cargo ships.” 

The Roscosmos chief warned, “If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an unguided de-orbit” and asked