Numerous US Launch Failures

An everincreasing number of launch failures (both secret and unveiled) taking place in the US on a constant basis, clearly proves their space hardware is not reliable enough and the functional quality of their space technologies is rather inadequate. This video gives quite a vivid review of it. Moreover, the much talkedabout accidents like shuttle Columbia crash and other less known catastrophes forced the US to refer to the Russian technical aid and our stateoftheart space technologies. In particular, the American Atlas 5, for example, is being equipped with the Russiandeveloped rocket engine RD180 (РД180) so far, which is considered to be the best rocket engine of 2008 in its characteristics and performance; the scaled back errorprone Shuttle program is substituted by the approved Russian carrier rockets Союз (Soyuz) which were recognized by the Americans to be the only flawless carrier rockets able to deliver their astronauts to the EarthOrbit and which are being provid br, br,