A bit of an editorialized title but I don’t think that many here will read the Russian text in the linked article.

So much for it being a micro meteorite.

It’s got the longest current success streak of any currently operational rocket.

Older Soyuz may have beater it but that’s the only thing that could. Recent Soyuz qc is a mess and they don’t have the flight rate anymore.

Weather tomorrow is a no go. Now targeting 3/2.

Russia doesn’t have the money to put a new station

US will have axiom station up before the ISS retires. And of course lunar gateway.

Dragon will have its 6th operational crewed mission on Monday and Starliner will be operational early next year.

A successful static fire needs all pre burners and turbines working. A spin prime is just a test of those components. No real need to wait it out if you are confident with your engine start parameters. They’ve done the spin prime and static fire quite a few times both on vehicle and at mcgregor. Now it’s time to light the candle.

> Vice President Kamala Harris will award former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hurley and Behnken will receive the award for bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2) to the International Space Station in 2020.

Always good to see these awards going to living astronauts.

I’m sure NASA will offer the Russians a ride home. It will be on Roscosmos to decline it.

That and degradation of the old ones due to space exposure.

Recent in astronomical timescales.

Check out the annual Balls rocket launch event. Out in the middle of nowhere and you can get a waiver for pretty much any altitude you want.

Or spaceport America cup if you are a student.

Murder on the Orient Orbital Express.

That treaty would go out if the window if it was determined that nuking an asteroid would stop it from impacting a populated area.