well, forget about us sticking it to putin. i think putin just stuck it back to us, and we re 15 minutes away, my friendsic from the proof. that s when this soyuz rocket is expected to take off. they re not big into lights in russia, that s all i m going to say. onboard the spaceship are two russian cosmonauts and one american. steve is the one hitching this ride, and we re the ones who are paying dearly for it. $70.6 million, that s one way up front, cashier s check made out to the russian federal state agency, because we haven t got any other way to get up there. we have to first pay up here to get up there. and i m told we re getting such a deal, because the russian space agency says this is a non-ukraine price. that means they re not charging more because, well, things are more tense. it s the same $71 million because, well, what are space