 uh... we tend to wanna denigrate them americans and make believe that we're still the cops but right now they have absolutely the world's most powerful successful space program they have a space station that they occupy and run on their own uh... and they have built it with the idea of building of of learning how to build an interplanetary spaceship so just be aware that they are making the pull of the preliminary uh... uh... engineering research for building a ship that could take their astronauts