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Rogozin tweeted a couple of days ago that US astronauts should go to space on a trampoline. It's interesting that a deputy PM can be so unprofessional as to say things like that in public, but that's modern Russian politics for you: top level bureaucrats saying embarassing things purely for internal consumption.

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Rogozin's twitter timeline is pretty much designed to provoke US administration (he has Russian and English feeds, both equally ridiculous). It isn't just for "internal consumption" anymore. It's Cold War 2.0, kids, at least as Kremlin sees it. And Rogozin isn't some small potatoes in Russian admin.

I think a human rated Dragon/Falcon stack can't come soon enough. The last I read, the first crewed flight to the ISS was scheduled for the end of next year as part of NASA's "Commercial Crew integrated Capability" (CCiCap) program. I wonder if NASA will be pressured by congress to speed up the program given the situation with Russia.

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