Would you buy a foreign spaceship? NASA wants to.

NASA plans to ground the shuttle in 2010. They're working on a replacement, but it won't be ready until 2016. So for at least six years there will be no U.S. craft to fly to the International Space Station. And whats a space agency without a spaceship?

So NASA wants to buy a Russian Soyuz, a compact three-seater job. But if you want a Soyuz you have to order three years in advance, so time's a'wastin'.

Americans drive foreign cars, so why not a foreign spaceship? And it'll probably get great gas mileage.

(USA Today)