Heh. So Japan still has troubles getting rocket designs to work at all, and Russia has troubles with reliability and probably maintenance. Not much has changed... But then again, they aren't that far in the future yet, are they? In any case, it continued the quite realistic feeling this series has been going for all the time.

But it would be troublesome to be a female astronaut (or cosmonaut) to be launched to the space from there and still try to respect traditions.