Hey folks, I'm writing a paper for uni right now about the United States' motivations to invite Russia to the ISS program.. For that I would need to find official documents that point to some of those reasons. The best doc I found so far is the house report on the ISS authorization act, but I need more... Do you guys know if the nasa administrator's correspondence (with congress, the president etc) is archived somewhere? Or other useful sources?
On the same note, I often heard (and it's part of my hypothesis) that NASA wanted to prevent Russia's experts from leaving the country and possibly work for other nations, but I haven't seen anything official about that concern... Any ideas?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
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