US astronauts will fly with Russia through 2019 because Boeing and SpaceX are late

US astronauts will fly with Russia through 2019 because Boeing and SpaceX are late

Testy lawmakers peppered executives from Boeing and SpaceX with questions at a hearing yesterday about delayed efforts to launch humans into space from the United States. The US is paying billions to both companies to build cheap, efficient spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting 250 miles above the earth, but…