His cosmonauts would not carry out this order. Not only have they built years of close friendship with their Western colleagues during training, but current and

His cosmonauts would not carry out this order. Not only have they built years of close friendship with their Western colleagues during training, but current and former members of the cosmonaut corps have feuded with Rogozin publicly and privately. He does not have their respect and they will not destroy their agency’s greatest pride for him. Rogozin is a war criminal and a clownish one at that. He is the former defense minister and deputy PM from the Crimea annexation days, and was then demoted to Roscosmos for his buffoonish incompetence, which has only continued there. It is genuinely sad to see this proud organization, once humanity’s vanguard in space, sink to its current state.