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NASA's SpaceX Dependency Is Now a Safety Issue When astronauts had to shelter inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule last week because of air leaks in the International Space Station, nobody called it what it was: a contingency that should never have had to exist. Per TechCrunch, Roscosmos discovered new leaks in the Russian service module, forcing a temporary evacuation of parts of the station. The fix wasn't a NASA system kicking in. It wasn't a backup from a partner agency with decades of independent capability. It was a commercial spacecraft—one that exists primarily to ferry cargo and crew for profit—doing…