SpaceX gains from Soyuz commercial hit
Russia’s Soyuz rocket has carried people and payloads to space for decades, a workhorse that has amassed a record of reliability as the most launched in spaceflight history.
Yet in the span of a few weeks, the Soyuz’s prospects have been severely...
A Soyuz capsule carrying an American, Russian and Italian successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station, where the new crew will spend six months conducting a variety of experiments.
The docking took place at 8:10 a.m. (0210 GMT, 10:10 p.m. EDT) less than six hours after...
http://news.discovery.com/space/russia-botches-another-rocket-launch-111223.html
Sounds like they need to beef up their "quality control" (isn't that an oxymoron in Russia?) even more! I'm just waiting for the first failed launch that results in the deaths of US astronauts. I believe we'll see...